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...local mismanagement and shoddy or nonexistent maintenance" account for "stairwells that reek of urine and ammonia" and "spray-painted graffiti" in hallways? Is it just possible, heaven forbid, that local management had assistance from the tenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 1984 | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...monolithic high-rises that make up New York City's St. Nicholas public housing project sprawl over an area roughly the size of Rockefeller Center. But there the comparison ends. The hallways are easels for spray-painted graffiti. The stairwells reek of urine and ammonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walls That Tumbled Down | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Howard R. Smith, who runs the Old Sarge Army-Navy store in Atlanta, likes to quote a maxim of his business: "If you can't sell it, spray it olive drab." Indeed, military-green duds have come in and out of fashion vogue with regularity since World War II. Of late, however, the old reliable color scheme has been supplanted by splotches of green, tan and brown. At Smith's store and dozens of others across the country, camouflage wear has become an undisguised rage. In the weeks before Christmas, camouflage outfits for children sold nearly as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Code Green, Tan and Brown | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Along the highway leading out of the capital of San Salvador, trees are beribboned with the red-white-and-blue emblems of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Making of a President | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Sunday, January 21: At 10:07 p.m. Harvard Police stopped and questioned two undergraduates about vandalism that night in Barnard Hall Graffiti was spray painted in the basement of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Blotter | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

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