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Undeterred, the Dekes tried again in 1978, this time developing a device that would spray-paint “MIT” in the field. Once again luck was not in their favor as a group of Brown students burnt a “B” onto the Harvard Stadium turf with lye a few weeks before the planned prank...

Author: By Renzo Weber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Look Back: 1982: MIT Gets In | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished from Thomas, Wolfe" and "Tom Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Elegant Execution | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Equally striking are the banners, designed by spray-paint graffiti artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco, that form the production's sole dacor. Each scene is illustrated by a single pennant, and each act is preceded by a collaborative mural depicting the deeply divided city of Los Angeles before and after a major temblor. Jordan's poetry too is highly accomplished and eminently singable. Although the piece was conceived before the 1994 Northridge quake, the title and title song derive from a memorable remark by a survivor of that disaster and form the show's central metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: POLITICAL TO A FAULT | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...money on it, but I do want to take a hell of a lot of money from Singapore's pockets," George Fay told the press. Meanwhile Thursday, Shiu Chi Ho, a 17-year-old from Hong Kong, was lashed six times for the same alleged rash of petty spray-paint vandalism in which Michael Fay claims he took no part. The Ohioan's sentence was knocked down from six to four strokes after President Clinton intervened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANING . . . FAY SR. LASHES OUT, ANOTHER BOY WHIPPED | 6/23/1994 | See Source »

...like a rather insignificant crime. Others congratulate the Singaporean government on its impending human pinata-fest. More than one stodgy middle class American who has had the antenna ripped off his car has said, "All I know, Geraldo, is that Fay kid sure won't be picking up any spray-paint cans any time soon...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Singapore's Teenage Pinata | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

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