Word: graffitiing
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What the public is watching is gags lifted from tales as old as the Arkansas Traveller (ca. 1860) but spliced together with production as new as Laugh-In. On Hee Haw, the graffiti adorn not bikini-clad boogaloo dancers but Burma-Shave signs, and the routines occur not at cocktail parties but in cornfields. That is their natural habitat. One of the company announces, "I'm a farmer in a candy factory." "Whaddaya do?" asks a chorus of rural voices. "I milk chocolate." In another rib cracker, the straight man wonders: "Hey, Junior, how come I saw you eating...
...word-cluttered collages have contributed more to a "latent freedom of writing" than his poems ever did. Nothing proved the point so well as the Russian invasion of Aug. 21. All the walls of Prague and all Czechoslovak towns blossomed with writing-defiant slogans, protests and simple anti-Russian graffiti. Then, says Padrta, "the main squares were like one giant Kolář collage...
...walls were once an austere brown, blending in well with the historic surroundings of the Harvard Yard. Now, they look more like the paintings of the so-called radical artist Jackson Pollock or the musings of some bathroom graffiti writer (see Time...
...disillusioning, but the men's rest-room in the stacks of Harvard's Widener Library, which is nearly perfectly limited to Harvard students and officers, contains graffiti as exclusively gross as could be found in bathrooms anywhere...
...agree that the graffito is a "sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations" and that for some adults, especially the introverted, it may be the only satisfying creative outlet. The crucial factor in graffiti interpretation is the tone. The flippancy is often mere camouflage for metaphysical anguish...