Word: clutter
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...ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously clutter the landscape...
...developed only a very crude "lookdown" radar, capable of spotting low-flying planes or missiles only over water. The U.S. has such radar in its Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes. The Soviets, however, have not yet figured out how to distinguish an airplane or missile from ground clutter. Before they solve this problem and deploy look-down radar (which may not happen until the 1980s), U.S. bombers will be able to penetrate Soviet borders...
Even before the action starts at Manhattan's Ethel Barrymore Theater, Santo Loquasto's setting begins to tell the story. It depicts a junk shop, a clutter of old furniture, toys and appliances that poignantly reflect the battered, grimy souls who cast them...
MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE...
...more. He has become too concerned with masks and manners to go about trapping flies. In fact, he has become a fly himself--the Truman Capote of journalism, caught up in appearances and in his own right-wing nativist assessment of American life. Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine leaves you with the feeling that if you were to suddenly say, "oh bullshit," and slam the book shut under Wolfe's nose, he would stand there dumb and amazed, little beads of fear and ignorance on his forehead, with no idea what you were talking about...