Word: clutter
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...part of the campaign to improve the broadcasting, BBI plans to change the commercial format. "We want to cut down on the amount of clutter that's presented. When you string six or eight commercials together, the people don't benefit, and the advertiser isn't getting his money's worth," said Poorvu...
...think I can tell you what I like least about campaigning. It is those small periods of time between events that are totally lost, where it is impossible to do anything. A half-hour here, a half-hour there. You do not want to clutter your mind before a speech; you cannot break away to relax. These are lost moments...
...skill and concision-or perhaps because of them-the book is too schematic. It also seems a rather self-consciously "modern" novel. Though the author's descriptive grasp of madness is frightening, Lise appears to suffer from an almost textbook urban psychosis. She is set about with a clutter of literary devices: the contrast between the repressed North and the chaotic South, the carefully anonymous settings, the intrusive hints that Lise is either like a street whore or a bride on her way to a blood wedding. Lise has, in effect, created and peopled her own demonic world...
...bridegroom wore hair and maroon velvet, the bride wore flowers and white satin when Michael Wilding, 17, son of Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...
...could sketch and paint, seeking to grasp the precise feeling of the time of day and the weather in New England. An 1848 harbor scene, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, typifies Lane's airy style. The exactitude of his portrayal of the bustling seaport-the clutter of logs, cut boards and barrels surrounding workmen on the quays-is set off by a serene panorama of sailing vessels in the background...