Word: graffitiing
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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...
...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...
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...
...believe that most students can be reached. In 1979 at Samuel Gompers Vocational-Technical High School in the South Bronx, only 60% of the students regularly showed up for school, and teachers were afraid to stay after the last bell. A new principal, Victor Herbert, began fighting back with graffiti-free hallways, a more stimulating curriculum and special events. Last year at Gompers (enrollment: 1,500), attendance was up to 80%. Says Herbert...
...engravings of that moral phantasmagoria set in 18th century England, stylizing the sets into crosshatched black-and-white etchings. Their graphic wit and punch reached a memorable climax in the final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each one a quotation from Hogarth, and in front of it the chorus of lunatics is housed in a stack of boxes, splayed in false perspective, a feverish metaphor of cellular confinement...