Word: graffitiing
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...AMERICAN GRAFFITI AND Mean Streets are ten years apart in setting, 1962 to 1973, but they have some remarkable similarities. Both produced in recent months, both by young directors, both personal statements, both the finest films of the year. But the likeness stretches further, to the atmosphere of each. There is a desperate energy in these movies that's walled in by the oppressiveness of the settings. The characters move with a blind urgency like trapped rats--they have nowhere to go. And the film-makers can do nothing with the material but dig deeper...
...teenagers in George Lucas' Graffiti are a generation bursting out of its skin. In a small town and a '62 world there's no road for their rock and roll anxiety to follow: they jump in their drag racers and drive back and forth on the strip, letting off steam. Teetering at the brink of a world not quite ready to release the new energy of a frontier mentality, the kids have a brief moment of loud, confused frenzy before they go to Vietnam or settle in the suburbs...
Many colleges still consider virtually any form of advertising as vulgar as graffiti on a mortarboard. At Loyola, the singing commercial seemed to please the faculty but it outraged the student newspaper. Labeling the pitch "degrading and embarrassing," an editorial declared: "Loyola is not a used-car dealership, or a carry-out Chinese restaurant or a discount department store. For the sake of St. Ignatius, aren't we a university...
...junta also banned the use of the term compañero, or comrade, which had been the ritual greeting of Allende's supporters. Flying squads of painters, meanwhile, ranged across Santiago to cleanse political slogans and provocative graffiti off the city's walls. The Socialist and Communist parties were outlawed...
...American Graffiti is not a profound film, but it's especially well-done and a lot of fun. It is a memory, perhaps a memoir, of what one goes through on the way to adulthood. If you're one of the freshmen registering today, you're probably wondering if you should ever have come. American Graffiti will comfort you with the knowledge that you are no different than anyone else...