Word: graffiti
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...real springs of power lay to the left, through the humming catalogue, past the circulation desk processing 300,000 volumes a year, and into the stacks. Gridley entered at Level Four, quickly bypassed American Literature and the Men's Room, with its outhouse graffiti, to plunge into the fields of light, the PZ section, home of pulp fiction and an unrivalled assortment of detective novels which came from the library of an egyptologist named George A. Reisner '89. Reisner died during the war and left the University crates of material, crates that held no hieroglyphs. Instead, his bounty...
...people of Babylon builded themselves a great hall. And it had pastel cinder block and great graffiti and many windows. And in it there was much feasting and loud voices...
...next few years, Dubuffet worked the back streets of Paris, painting little bistros and corset shops, jazz combos, and a host of men and women in the misery of routine (Woman Removing Her Chemise, Gallant Woman Removing Her Panties). There were also closeups of earth and paintings resembling graffiti, the rude scribblings found on walls throughout the ages. In 1944 Dubuffet got his first Paris show. Even for a city that had just been liberated, this was almost too much freedom to bear...
...years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When he dug into the sandy floor, he found a peculiar bundle: a goatskin wrapped around the desiccated body of a child. The entrails had been removed and replaced by a bundle of herbs...
Last week Professor Margherita Guarducci, 56, a slender, youthful-looking spinster who is professor of Greek epigraphy at Rome University, announced that she had found in these graffiti strong new evidence that St. Peter had been buried where tradition has placed...