Word: graffitti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only Thing I've Done Wrong borrows heavily from many sources, among them The Scarlet Letter, The Last Summer, the Bible, American Graffitti, Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones, and Osborne's life. It is about San Francisco and sailing in the summer, because Osborne grew up in San Francisco and is "an accomplished sailor...
Another poem commented on the unpopularity of America's involvement in Southeast Asia by invoking the image of Kilroy, a fictitious mascot of American forces whose name appeared as scrawled graffitti throughout Europe and Korea but who became conspicuous by his absence from Vietnam. "Kilroy is absent without leave from Vietnam," McCarthy read, and the impact of the poem's message moved the audience to applause...
...world are we given this uncommon opportunity? There has got to be some legitimate, valid (notice I did not say logical), or even quasi-acceptable reason for such a policy. But after searching the Freshman Dean's Office, hounding proctors and class officers, even after carefully scrutinizing the graffitti in Cabot Library (the first stall on the ground floor has some terrific stuff), I have discovered not a single plausible argument for Harvard's academic calendar...
...home to 110,000 Mexican Americans who speak Spanish, celebrate the Cinco de Mayo* and prefer tamales to hot dogs. "East Los" also has more than it share of vandalism, burglary and car thefts, in large part committed by tough Chicano gangs that mark their territory with special graffitti called placas. Yet in the past two years, there has been a remarkable change in the barrio. Reports Los Angeles Police Captain George Morrison: "Officers on foot patrol say that they notice an increase in community pride, a new awareness of self worth...
...whatever you say you are. The fickleness of the instantaneous media courses through the film. Having learned his new role from the movies, Ivan poses for pictures with six guns circling his fingers, and sends them to the newspapers. He writes his logo on walls like graffitti on the IRT. And as the news of his exploits spreads, his suddenly rediscovered $20 record rises to the top of the charts...