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...graffito distressed the cathedral's Dean, the Very Rev. Edward Patey, a clergyman known for his social conscience, but he defended the project forthrightly. "It might be called wasted space, wasted heat, by some," he says today, "but there is an instinct that one aspect of worship of God is to be aware of our smallness in proportion to his majesty. The medieval builders felt this. To go to worship God is not just like going out to buy a packet of fish and chips." As for the cost, Dean Patey has no apologies: "Compared with what people spend...
...Tate Gallery in London by three art historians, Leslie Parris, Ian Fleming-Williams and Conal Shields. It celebrates Constable's 200th birthday and is the largest showing of his work ever. For the first time, one can see the whole man under one roof-from the juvenilia (a graffito he scratched on a beam in the family mill when he was 16) and memorabilia, to the grand series of 6-ft. landscapes he painted in the 1820s and '30s. These include The Hay Wain, The Leaping Horse, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, Hadleigh Castle. In them Constable...
DEUS NO CEU, SAVIMBI EM ANGOLA (God is in heaven, Savimbi is in Angola), reads the graffito on the front wall of the former Governor's Palace in Silva Porto. Slogans extolling the virtues of UNITA and its leader are scrawled on walls throughout this small, colonial town in the Angolan highlands. Most of the Portuguese who once lived in the neat concrete houses with red tile roofs have long since fled the country. Squatters who carefully maintain the lawns and flower beds now live in many of these homes. The Portuguese left Silva Porto taking all the city...
...leader. The raid, Fatah spokesmen explained, was to hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
...interview in the Paris Review, Albee credits the title to a distinctly literary graffito inscribed in soap on the mirror of a Greenwich Village bar. He wrote to Leonard Woolf, the husband of the dead novelist, who gave him permission...