Word: grafitti
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...movie. Basquiat had numerous romantic relationships with men, and was fairly out about them. In fact, Basquiat's father's discovery of his son's bisexuality was likely one of the primary reasons Basquiat left home as a young teenager, which lead to his introduction to the underground grafitti culture of the early 1980s. And, where Schnabel's film depicts Andy Warhol as Basquiat's primary connection to the whorl of fame and fortune, Hoban tells us that Basquiat worked early in his career with Keith Haring, and briefly dated Madonna. Warhol does not appear as a major figure...
...Pilot is almost all screen; input is done with a stylus on its touch-sensitive screen. Unlike the painful full-text recognition of the Newton, the Pilot uses the Grafitti alphabet, which has you enter data letter by letter using special keystrokes. It takes a few hours to learn how to make each letter of the alphabet, but you can easily be writing at 20 words per minute within an afternoon. The Pilot literally took the market by storm as a little guy: it's about the size of an index card, weighs only six ounces and gets several weeks...
...Harvard may seem more open because there's no bathroom grafitti that says 'Die fag' like there was at Hunter," says Garance Franke-Ruta '96, a transfer student from Hunter College in New York City. "But.... it doesn't necessarily mean that people aren't thinking...
...decades-old, grafitti-ridden surfaces and drawers of Alexander Change's standard-issue Quincy House desk and wardrobe have been carefully covered with smooth, black contact paper. Leftover bits of the paper--cut and arranged into decorative patterns a la Henri Matisse--frame a massive, gloomy Jane's Addiction poster. "Just call them shards of contact paper framing a poster," the artist Chang says...
...this corporal punishment. The Singapore Embassy told the Associated Press that in the last several weeks it has received more than 100 letters and 200 phone calls, the majority supporting the flogging. In a society where vandalism is a daily occurrence and public property is constantly defaced by grafitti, Fay's punishment seems an easy solution to a vexing problem. As one man told reporter Karen De Witt of The New York Times, "If you've ever had your antenna ripped off your car, you can sympathize with the Government of Singapore...