Word: clutter
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...hard drive of my computer is a bit like my closet. To the casual observer, it might look a bit like a whirlwind, a catch-all for everything I once needed or may possibly need again. Underneath the clutter, though, there is a divine order to it all. I know, for instance, that the last column I wrote was saved in my "Foreign Cultures 46" folder, even if you might think it would be in the folder marked "Columns." My last "Frank Lloyd Wright" paper is in that folder, right where I know to find...
...last years, from 1865 or so until his death, Corot produced an exquisite series of small figure paintings, mostly of young women sitting before the easel in the brown clutter of his studio. Some remind you of Chardin, others are prophecies of Whistler. Interrupted Reading, circa 1870-73, is strikingly modern in its broadly painted triangular planes of muted color, regulated by two patches of black--the model's hair and her bodice--and relieved only by some red coral beads. Its Raphaelesque formal clarity looks back to neoclassicism but also forward to Picasso's dropsical women. It shows that...
First, to the practical argument. While the staff rightly observes that the steady delivery of mass mailings similar to Simons' could slow the exchange of information over the Harvard server and clutter student e-mailboxes, it undermines its own logic by conceding that filters could be put in place to restrain mass mailings. Claims that the "legitimate" user would somehow be punished by such a program are specious at best...
...SEEING IT: Shucks, there's something down-home and friendly about that good ole boy Lamar. Alexander is in desperate need of breaking through the clutter. The ad is designed to feature him as the easy-listening alternative to his shriller, more dour rivals. He's banking on his likability, trusting that voters have forgotten that he was the first Republican to go negative months ago. Another problem: his schoolteacherish diction seems designed to appeal to fifth-graders, and they can't vote in primaries...
Henry Luce, in the original prospectus for TIME, wrote that in an age when people were bombarded by information--not unlike the digital age we are entering--they were, ironically, becoming less informed. This magazine was created to provide synthesis and analysis that cut through the clutter and save readers time. That service remains just as valid, and that mission just as clear, today...