Word: graffitti
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...home to 110,000 Mexican Americans who speak Spanish, celebrate the Cinco de Mayo* and prefer tamales to hot dogs. "East Los" also has more than it share of vandalism, burglary and car thefts, in large part committed by tough Chicano gangs that mark their territory with special graffitti called placas. Yet in the past two years, there has been a remarkable change in the barrio. Reports Los Angeles Police Captain George Morrison: "Officers on foot patrol say that they notice an increase in community pride, a new awareness of self worth...
...whatever you say you are. The fickleness of the instantaneous media courses through the film. Having learned his new role from the movies, Ivan poses for pictures with six guns circling his fingers, and sends them to the newspapers. He writes his logo on walls like graffitti on the IRT. And as the news of his exploits spreads, his suddenly rediscovered $20 record rises to the top of the charts...
PEOPLE HAVE, of course, been writing graffitti ???out pissing and fucking for years without giving ???damn about the use of the objective correlative ??? the integration of form and content. But Loewinsohn's poetry, in spite of its apparent nonchalance. ??? subtly crafted and conceived. In "Meat Air." the title poem of the new collection, he describes what ??? calls the "cohering center" of his work...
FELLINI opens his Satyricon with a shot of a wall covered with ancient Roman graffitti: crudely drawn naked women, some puns, maybe somewhere a reference to Caesar Salad: all in cold damp colors blending to a dull grey-green. This first image persists as the most sensible comment about the rest of the film...
...Fellini Satyricon has been called "the first great Jungian film" (in Time magazine), and this would be true if we were to take graffitti as the quintessential representation of the collective unconscious. Otherwise, Fellini Satyricon is a loosely constructed. opulently produced cartoon, in which no one image seems essential to the thematic sense of the film and some make little sense...