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...accommodate itself to totalitarianism, and you can anticipate the courtesy with which the riot squad goons knock our hero, Sam Lowry, unconscious ("Sorry, sir, regulations"). Slogans of the police state are everywhere: DON'T SUSPECT A FRIEND--REPORT HIM. And scrawled on a tenement wall is the most obscene graffito of all: REALITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Happy Ending for a Nightmare Brazil | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...potent that one drop in 10,000 gal. is considered a dangerous concentration. Under political pressure, the EPA agreed to pay off all property owners; homeowners got between $8,800 and $98,900 apiece. And the town died. On one street remains an ex-resident's bright white graffito: GOODBYE TIMES BITCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Yesterday the Jews, tomorrow the Turks. -Graffito in West Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Rising Racism on the Continent | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...This graffito was seen in the University of Minnesota library: I compute, There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1983 | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...VERMIN HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH . So proclaims the spray-painted graffito on a truck sprawled by a desolate stretch of road in this low-budget Australian thriller. At first horrified glance, moviegoers may be convinced that the vermin have also inherited the movie industry. In The Road Warrior, cars crash, somersault, explode, get squashed under the wheels of semis. Skinless bug-eyed corpses hurtle toward the screen. A mangy dog sups at a coyote carcass. A deadly boomerang shears off fingertips, creases a man's skull. That's entertainment? As a series of isolated incidents, no; our nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apocalypse... Pow! | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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