Word: clutter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excellency the Governor, scanning the sunny skies over Hong Kong, rested his eyes on a reassuring spectacle. A squadron of Spitfires screamed down in mock attack over the blue-green waters of Victoria Harbor. Their target: an aircraft carrier lying at anchor amid a great clutter of cargo junks, sampans and merchant ships from all parts of the world. "If they know we're strong," said Sir Alexander Grantham, referring to Hong Kong's 1,800,000 Chinese, "they...
...legislation touched off a chorus of howls. Since most of the stations sell three brands of gas, the changes would clutter up the signs so much that the "5? off" come-on would be lost in the welter of neon. Charged Hugh D. Lacy, who heads an association of 96 self-service operators: "Of course, it's the oil lobby's work. We know they did it. We're going to test this law in the courts...
SCAP is still criticized in some quarters for its cumbersome, red-taped bureaucracy.* There are too many military minds fumbling with unmilitary chores. One American businessman recently complained: "They clutter up any piece of business with the damndest bureaucracy you ever saw. But foreign businessmen here can at least get into SCAP and yell. The Japanese businessmen are even more helpless and paralyzed-and don't even dare go near SCAP...
What remained of ancient Rome when young Giovanni Battista Piranesi came down from Venice in 1740, was a pretty depressing sight for a would-be architect. The Forum was a clutter of shattered columns commonly known as "Cows' Field." The once-glorious Capitol was "Goats' Hill." The arcades of,the Colosseum were smothered in weeds and shrubs, and every day a few more stones disappeared on the carts of enterprising masons...
Every blade of grass in the picture is separately painted. "Just because something is tightly done doesn't mean anything," Wyeth says, "but I feel that the more you get into the textures of things, the less you have to clutter up the composition with a lot of props. When you lose simplicity you lose drama, and drama is what interests me. I guess I'm just an illustrator at heart...