Word: graffiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graffiti, which included swastikas and insulting remarks about the police, appeared to be the work of "local youths bent on vandalism and using graffiti and vandalism for shock-effect," said Lt. Donald C. Whalen of the Wellesley Police...
...morning, when the edges of day and night had blurred along with my faded memories of sleep, the graffiti in the bathroom disappeared. It was painted over. Gone in the three-hour period of a nap on the couch...
...resolved to do nothing less than recreate our history--or "herstory" as some of us called it. And we would do it all at once, immediately. The bathroom wall could not languish graffiti-less; its statements were the connections that we had with each other, the definition of our place here. The hard-fought place that was the source of so much alternating pride and insecurity on those walls...
...Howard Beach incident three years ago, when a young Black man was chased onto a highway by a gang of white thugs and killed by a motorist; the death of an elderly Black woman Eleanor Bumpurs, who was shot by New York police; and the death of Black graffiti artist Michael Stewart, who was killed in the custody of six New York police officers...
House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) added, "The people who pose as the most vigilant supporters of flag protection...seem more interested in adding political graffiti to the Constitution than in protecting the physical integrity of the American flag...