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SOME MIGHT shout censorship. But would the elimination of the bell-ringing be an instance of a community rising up against art, as North Carolina Sen. Jesse A. Helms rises up against nearly everything? Some may wonder: What will be targeted next, the mural in Leverett House dining hall...
...starts with the clothes: a pair of Bass Weejuns, baggy chinos, a Stanford sweatshirt, a Washington Redskins hat. And it's also the food: the Cool Ranch- flavored Doritos tortilla chips bought from 7-Eleven; real American all- beef frankfurters eaten under a Wrigley Field mural in the Chicago Dog restaurant; or ersatz American pizza ordered from Chicago Pizza, which promises home delivery as speedy as archrival Domino...
...inch. A couple of the new songs, such as Real Niggaz Don't Die and Appetite for Destruction, can really stir things up: their fury is incendiary. Everything good about N.W.A. -- and a lot that isn't -- is straight street: smarts, attitude, language, beat. Efil4zaggin is a rap mural of ghetto life, spray-painted with blood. It is for hard-case rappers, and it is no sell-out. N.W.A. got to the No. 1 spot by bearing down just as hard as it always has: its first album, Straight Outta Compton, which has sold 2 million copies, contained...
...Minnesota, but architectural references kept creeping into his work. After moving to New York City in 1968, he came to public attention with a proposal to paint a series of haunting silhouettes of demolished landmarks on building walls near the historic structures' former sites. In his first actual mural, on an all-but-blank side wall of a cast-iron structure, he painted windows and trim that uncannily duplicated the building's street front. The painting has since become as much of a landmark as its surroundings...
...functional, no-frills era, Haas boldly mixes styles and allusions, paying tribute to master builders and reviving the richness and variety of earlier ages. Every Haas mural has the flair and comic touch of the Baroque -- art striving for the grand impression. "The real talent is to know how little to do to get a lot," he says. "That is the theatrical effect...