"PAY ATTENTION MOTHERFUCKERS," he suggests, in a 1973 lithograph that spells out this message in large mirror-image capitals.
Everything is mobile -- images, capital, information -- so people see no reason why they should not be too.
It was under Lawes that the world got its most sensational image of capital punishment: Ruth Snyder and her lover, Henry Judd Gray, went to the chair in 1928 for the killing of Snyder's husband.
"The whole point of lethal injection, when it was invented, was to soften the image of capital punishment by making it look like an ordinary medical procedure," writes the New Republic's Ben Crair.
And it cared about the image of the capital, too.
Investment in London properties is a major route which tarnishes the image of the capital.
Paris, with its image as the capital of the art of living, was always popular with high-spending dictators.
Federico Fellini propagated this image of the capital in films such as Roma (1972) and La dolce vita (1960; "The Sweet Life").
Twelve people have killed themselves at Metro stations here this year, a trend that is threatening to mar the image of the capital city's new lifeline.
Like most Europeans, Mr. Eco agrees that the conventional image of a capital hardly seems suited to the unconventional European Union.
In recent years, city and federal authorities have erroneously blamed several high-profile crimes on local disputes in order to preserve the clean image of the capital, critics claim.
