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Deitch was around when Jean-Michel Basquiat was scrawling graffiti on the bombed out streets of the Lower East Side in the 1970s before he rocketed to fame as the enfant terrible of the art world.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2019

“So,” he said as he was scrawling, “what will be my duties with the company?”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It was scrawling in huge letters, over and over, "NO NO NO"....

From The Worshippers by Emshwiller, Ed

Jimmie Dale, under a pencilled arrow mark indicating the finger print, was scrawling a few words in printed characters.

From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)