Word: spray-painted
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...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...
...write a new constitution before the presidential elections planned for 1983, to be a crucial step toward establishing full civilian democracy in the country. The Salvadoran left is boycotting the process, and the guerrilla groups hope to disrupt the balloting, with the aim of making the election meaningless. Spray-paint signs in the guerrilla colors of black and red warn Salvadorans that "whoever votes will be killed." Last week José Rodriguez Ruiz, a leader of one of the five major Salvadoran rebel groups, spelled out the guerrillas' broad strategy: "We are going to attack the cities better each...
...Ross, straining hard to seem as naive as her little dog Toto, is blown by a snowstorm to Munchkin land. This turns out to be the old New York World's Fair Pavilion at Flushing Meadow, where the Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow (Michael Jackson), hung...
Night arrives and the Young Eternal Souls from St. Louis replace Professor George Wald at the microphone. Two kids spray-paint a sidewalk red and blue. It is too dark to read their message. The Commons is sodded with cans, lunchbags, styrofoam cups and leaflets. The trees are strung with red, white and blue lights, with some green ones over by Park Street...
Fortunately, one could always concentrate on the novel doings upstage. There, standing before three huge, upwardly unwinding panels of paper, toiled a happy handful of subway graduates who used spray-paint cans to demonstrate that most up-to-date and with-it of minimal arts-graffiti...