Word: clutter
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...prodigality leaves environmentalists seething about the direct-mail bombardment, which consumes millions of trees each year. Conservationists also fume that the discards amount to 3% of the total clutter in the nation's landfills. And just how do they try to enlist public support? By mail, of course. The environmental watchdog organization Greenpeace USA sends more than 25 million pieces annually. Earlier this year the Environmental Defense Fund put out a direct-mail fund raiser (on recycled paper) that offered, in exchange for membership, a copy of the best-selling 50 Simple Things You Can + Do to Save the Earth...
That said, Heller does nothing to aid her own cause. Although Chicago boasts skillful choreography and exuberant performances, this show is saddled by clumsy direction, offensive racial stereotypes and a chorus whose constant vocal presence ensures that we will rarely hear the lead in any song. In Chicago clutter replaces cohesion, and although this cast tries to provide some razzle-dazzle, the poor script and staging result in only fitful success...
...prosperous food-canning factory that my grandfather and some other townsmen started in the '20s petered out, I learn, in the early '70s. A steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat...
Things have gone so far that getting your home featured in Architectural Digest, an honor to die for in the '80s, is considered tacky. After all, most of the homes are not so much designed as crammed with very expensive clutter. Interior decorators are outre, and making slipcovers and clothes for the children seems to be gaining favor. Fabri-Centers of America, a chain of 620 fabric stores in 35 states, reports that earnings have grown 72% in the past year, from $5.1 million to $8.8 million, while revenues are up 15%, to $333 million. Chairman Alan Rosskamm attributes...
...tempting to view today's networked and digitized world as the inevitable culmination of Morse's breakthrough technology. That would be a mistake, however. Technological change has been marked by fits, starts and left turns, and the clues to the future have often been hidden in the clutter of the present...