Word: clutter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heaviness of an absinthe drinker's posture before the dull green phosphorescence of her glass; the exact port of a dandy's cane; the professional absorption of the petits rats of the ballet corps; the look in a whore's eye as she sizes up her client; the revealing clutter on a writer's desk...
...strikes you in the great still lifes and interiors of the 1940s and '50s, and it lends them the breadth and declamatory power of traditional fresco. Even when the form is inherently mysterious or logically inexplicable -- like the bird that flaps like a silent, benign apparition through the workaday clutter in his Studio paintings of 1949-56 -- you are aware of its density...
...estate by 7% to 15%. Young anglophiles hope that a wanton English garden with piles of ivy and wisteria will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone dogs with baskets in their mouths, gates, bird feeders, Gothic porches and dovecotes...
With such high quality sound--suitable for FM radio broadcast--Harvard provides feeds to stations who cover the event, eliminating the need for the clutter of microphones often seen at press conferences, Clancy says...
...tunes are taken from the Sign "O" the Times LP, and none of Prince's voluminous repertoire is played, save a few bars of "Little Red Corvette." But this is what seems to give Sign "O" The Times, the movie, its overall character. It would be foolish to clutter the conceptual Sign with leftovers from Parade...