Word: graffitiing
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...begins as a popular, benevolent figure. As his power overripens and corrupts, he sells his country's coastal waters, murders his enemies and finally withdraws to his palace to live in regal squalor with his concubines. He still keeps up with public sentiment, however -by reading the graffiti on the walls of his servants' outhouses...
From the inside, they all looked pretty much the same save an occasional starspangled ping-pong table or the number of initials carved in the woodwork. Most had barren living rooms upstairs and basements with long dark-wood bars, ping-pong tables, and bench-lined, graffiti decorated walls...
Most of the paintings have been horribly scratched by graffiti artists. Not all of them are twentieth century pranksters. Some were Byzantines themselves, airing their peeves about monastic life. This ancient writing, in fact, is of particular interest to Byzantine scholars for the peculiar contractions and, occasionally, outright slang that it employs...
...much cynicism. But also without touching us very deeply, because Veronique never does act her real age, never even suggests that her pre-mature coolness is really a hold-out against advancing adolescent self-consciousness (a la Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, for instance, or McKenzie Phillips in American Graffiti...
Besides the welcome participation of Stewart, The Shootist features Lauren Bacall, Richard Boone, Scatman Crothers, John Carradine and Ron Howard, of American Graffiti, whose youthful presence must have helped ease the insurance premiums on the cast. Wayne, of course, is the honcho, and he performs well, although he must have been a little discomfited at having to play the lead in his own eulogy. Siegel starts The Shootist off with film clips to show Books in action over the years. The scenes, of course, are from previous Wayne vehicles. Some are of rather recent vintage, others antique, but they pertain...