Word: styrofoam
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Like an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin, the Great Human Interest Saga of Andrew Wyeth and Helga Testorf, the German nymph of Chadds Ford, Pa., came roaring down the narrow defiles of silly-season journalism and obliterated the meager factual content of the story. Here, one learned, was a treasure, a secret cache of hundreds of paintings and drawings of a mystery blond done between 1971 and 1985 by America's dynastic culture hero, unbeknown to his wife, never exhibited, possibly the record of a love affair, bought en bloc for millions by a neophyte collector...
...styrofoam trays with different multi-colored piles
That atmosphere cannot be found at Harvard proper. Studying in the dining halls is like getting trapped in a fluourescent bulb with a horde of albino slugs. Blinded by the reflection of trashy chandeliers off Pinesol-scrubbed linoleum, clutching a slowly melting styrofoam cup of tootsie-roll colored stomach acid, that is the dining hall experience...
...peered over. Thank God, it's the Castle in the distance. Then my eye fell down from the majestic styrofoam parapets across the enormous parking lots and back toward the mound...
...come to Cambridge that week in September to illuminate the sky above Harvard Stadium for the celebration's grand finale. He says that the Harvard version won't be as extravagant. That's a relief. Maybe someone will build scaffolding around the statue of John Harvard, and sell little styrofoam Harvard hats to sponsor a restoration...