Word: scrawling
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...portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans, Poles massed outside to cheer them on, tossing bouquets, cigarettes and food through the iron fence. Emboldened by the crowd, workers renamed the shipyard Solidarity, daubing the union's name in a crude graffiti scrawl across the bottom of huge white letters spelling LENIN on a sign above the entrance...
...local school where the students have actually heard of New Wave and use "punks" to mean musicians, not young criminals. Weemawee is a cockeyed canvas of persuasively contemporary adolescence across which Producer Anne Beatts (a former Saturday Night Live writer) and a talented team, including Director Kim Friedman, scrawl assorted sassy jokes, some shrewd send-ups and a few cultural graffiti...
...written masterpieces in letters six feet high . . . We are back to the cave man and his cave painting." To Mailer, the spray-can artists are brilliantly writing "I am." It never seems to have occurred to him that what is also being inscribed is "You aren't." Urban scrawl does not merely decorate, it also defaces: maps, buildings, trees, monuments. In this vandalized epoch, graffiti can be avoided only by the wealthy, and celebrated only by those who bombinate about the "rapt intent seething of its foliage ... the herald of some oncoming apocalypse less and less far away...
...appear to be 70 million so-called crypto-Christians. Even the Vatican's count may be conservative. In Rome, though official church documents were impressive in their detail, one questionnaire on the number of baptisms in an African country was answered by the harried local bishop with the scrawl: "Deus scit" (God only knows...
...Scrawl a bit of American Graffiti across the front door of Animal House and you have a rough idea of Porky's effect. It has some of Graffiti's sweetness of spirit, but none of its style or depth of feeling; it has some of Animal's raunchiness, but none of its loony anarchy. The title refers to a '50s bawdy house where six Florida youths search for sexual initiation, find humiliation, and then, by revenging themselves on its proprietor, achieve a sort of do-it-yourself rite de passage. The rest of the time they...