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...museum has joined forces with the University of Pennsylvania art department in backing a Graffiti Alternative Workshop. After "recruiting" some prolific vandals, who had been caught in the act, the workshop commissioned several at $2 an hour to candy-stripe a dilapidated transit-authority bus. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired yet another group to decorate the plywood fence surrounding its new Philadelphia office. One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house...
Still, Pop art is never without its detractors. Isadore Bellis, a member of Philadelphia's city council, went so far as to propose an ordinance that would solve the problem by banning the sale of spray paint. Says he of the graffiti workshop: "Unbelievable...
DIED. Santa C. Claus, 58, white-bearded, 280-lb. year-round Kris Kringle, who made personal appearances across the country and worked from 1970 to 1979 at the Santa's Workshop theme park in North Pole, N.Y.; of an apparent heart attack; in Chicago. In 1980 Claus legally changed his name from LeRoy Scholtz...
...that circle has grown into a 110-woman collective housed in a new, two-story concrete building. The clatter of 60 gleaming sewing machines plays syncopated rhythm to the strains of Chinese music from the stereo and the gossipy talk of the workers. Liao Zhureng, 30, who manages the workshop, rarely needs to exhort the women since they are paid by the piece...
...telephone in the other? Is she smitten with a TV personality named Budget Bob? Has she started getting packages in the mail that contain everything from ersatz diamond rings to brass eagles? And what about Dad? Has he been babbling about someone on TV named Bubblin' Bobbi? Is his workshop suddenly overflowing with tools, gadgets and trinkets that keep arriving via United Parcel Service...