Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...foyer and a thick sludge of feces seeps across the tiles and into the living room. Beer bottles, wine boxes, cigarette cartons, condom wrappers, dirty clothes and dog chow pile up on the soggy carpeting. Gang tags and drug-addled poetry splash the walls in red, gold and black spray paint. The decimated kitchen counters sag beneath jugs of curdled milk and rot-encrusted dishes. Scratched in the entrance hall is a fitting salutation: "Welcome to Hell...
...most prominent university told me that three Harvard students had visited the West Bank last summer on behalf of Harvard’s admissions office.The hope and angst juxtaposed on the wall’s face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood spray-painted only a few panels over from “Zionism = Nazism”) underlined the story I heard from the dean: local students, aspiring to education’s holy grail, were soon discouraged by the unfamiliar exams demanded by the application process—another high wall that...
...chocolate hearts to her press corps as recently as Valentine's Day. This, too, is part of the saga: since the early 1980s, Hillary Clinton has tried charming the press in between denunciations - they way you might say "good doggie" to a growling cur while reaching for the pepper spray...
...hard line? Chalk is amongst the most innocuous of messengers. Unlike spray paint or ink, chalk is always laid down with impermanence in mind. It washes away easily with nothing more than water, and so the variety of New England weather ensures that no chalk message remains for much longer than a week...
...democracy in Pakistan. We are now faced with turmoil in an already troubled and volatile part of the world, and since the West depends so much on Pakistan's support in the campaign against terrorism, I fear we will be subjected to a sustained campaign of violence. Gabrielle Spray, Colchester, England...