Word: cluttered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waterfowl on an embassy pond. When he left the New Delhi post last summer, Keating's staff put up a bronze plaque commemorating his acts of "compassion and devotion" to the birds. Then one Foreign Service man told a subordinate that a proliferation of such plaques would clutter the clean lines of the Edward Durell Stone-designed embassy building. So the eager-to-please underling ordered the inscription sanded off the plaque, a bureaucratic half-measure that earned him and his boss ridicule. Osgood's moral: "There are many kinds of waterfowl, but the silliest goose...
...very special in Dracula this fall. But her Eve is the best performance I've seen at Harvard. The first act turns into the second with an omniscient voice intoning a "begat" section of the Bible, while shadows file on and off the stage leaving it a clutter of history. Eve is there knitting, lines of childbirth drawn onto her face, placid as her husband digs in the dirt beside her. A brash and warlike Cain returns, brandishing a spear, and in the mother son exchange that follows Dean throws so much of herself into the part, quivers with...
...Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Geologists reckon that large untapped deposits lie off the coasts of Long Island, northern Florida and elsewhere. Leasing has been slowed by fierce opposition from residents, who fear that their shore fronts will be ruined by big black derricks on the blue horizon, by the clutter of docking facilities and possible oil spills. Even if all opposition vanished, it would take three to five years to find and drill new wells offshore. A surer way to expand domestic sources would be for Congress to finally approve the Alaska pipeline bill, enabling the nation...
...name being borrowed from a quotation in Isaiah. It tells of a land truly flowing with milk, honey-and miscegenation. The author has been a playwright (Next of Kin) as well as a minor novelist, and his dialogue demonstrates an admirable ability to leave out the unnecessary clutter that so often drowns sofa-stuffed historicals in sobs and expostulations. His descriptive powers, though, do not rise to such simple things as a squirrel hunt or a day's lazy fishing in the local creek...
Frank lets him eat in peace as he moves from behind the counter to clear off the clutter of greasy pizza plates, crumpled napkins, and empty soda bottles that has piled up in the last ten minutes. His scenery the flimsy wood panelling on the walls, his stage lights the neon sign on the storefront that glares "Harvard House of Pizza" in red and green, Frank performs without an audience...