Word: graffitiing
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...Diana has promised her sons that they will leave. "I keep saying to them, 'One more year.'" She vows, "My New Year's resolution is to get out." And it grows stronger every time she navigates the dangerous passage past the dope dealers and gang members in the graffiti-covered lobby, through the piles of garbage in the halls, to the sixth floor in a lurching elevator lighted by a single, dimly glowing bulb. Her son John is now at the age when many other boys in Cabrini-Green become "foot soldiers" in the gangs, which use them for killing...
...magic realism (The Island in the Mind), the thrice Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author stops to admire a graffiti-scribbled wall, against which Time's photographer decides to shoot him. "The way I work, anything that looks like a plan you can be damn sure it's actually an accident," Hall says. "I love accidents. I love things taking sideswipes and the world intruding...
Hell hath no fury like a soccer coach scorned. Just as Los Angeles prepares to pucker up to its newest megastar resident, DAVID BECKHAM'S old team is doing the sports-world equivalent of writing nasty graffiti on the girls'-bathroom wall. After Beckham's $250 million job with the U.S.'s Major League Soccer was announced, Real Madrid barred Beckham from playing in any more games. And team president Ramón Calderón said the English midfielder is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy because no other team wants him. "David Beckham is going to be some sort of film...
...mountainside near Caracas, where many homes are made of scraps of tin pieced together. Here, gang violence and drugs are part of everyday life, and the government has been slow to provide new housing for families whose homes are in danger of collapsing in mudslides. Even so, posters and graffiti praising Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution," named after South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, permeate the neighborhood...
...building on the left is newly painted with curtains in the window and a tidy garbage can on the street. Next door, there are no windows in which to hang curtains, and the dirty and soot-stained brick wall is punctured by holes. Uninviting and marred with graffiti, the building on the right is home to nothing but neglect. In the series “View Along Fern St. from 10th St.,†Vergara attempts to depict the passage of time. In four photos from different years, Vergara shows how a view down the same street changes...