Word: grafitti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Florynce Kennedy, attorney and founder of the Feminist Party, told the crowd last night, "We must have a moratorium on all nuclear proliteration and plants, everything. We must escalate the grafitti, we've got to put it on prime time network television...
...nothing new. Cruising is an ancient art form, practiced on foot in Europe centuries before George Lucas made "American Grafitti." But America has adapted it, like other facets of Western civilization, on an enormous scale. In a rural Italian town 50 youths strolling by a park can turn a street into a strip; in Florida, it takes thousands to attain that critical mass. And the bids for sexual favors derive from an electic base. There are the crude grabs for women's body parts made by passing motorists. There are the fur-lined vans idling forward with their side doors...
There were cobwebs hanging from the light standards, and grafitti was written all over the place (Rich, Ann-Marie, Rocco R.) The ancient overhead scoreboard looked like it had come right out of a Reynolds Wrap commercial, and the walls were being eaten alive. Had Herman Munster been a hockey player, he would have loved...
...this bathroom wall style. Subtitled "A Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog," it is put out by POINT, some sort of non-profit subsidiary of Portola Institute, the wonderful people who brought you The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Epilog, and numerous other updates. The Quarterly shares the slapdash grafitti layout that made The Catalog great bedtime reading, interspersed with long articles on topics like saddles and trappings, space colonies, and what's left of the New Left. There are also interviews with at least nominally interesting people like Marlon Brando and astronaut Russell Schweickart...
...CoEvolutionary Quarterly stacks aphorisms and maxims and self-help articles on top of each other like bathroom wall grafitti, and should be treated as such. One of the most popular lines of grafitti in the late '60s was "America--Fix It or Forget It." and the people who run The Quarterly seem bent on forgetting. The CoEvolutionary Quarterly should be read as one reads a clever piece of grafitti on a bathroom wall, washes his hands and slicks his hair back, then shoves his way out into the bright fluorescent lights of the real world...