Word: clutter
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...paying fans who came out to the Idaho State University "Mini-dome" in Pocatello recently for the I.T.A.'s single dress-rehearsal meet saw more than amateur theatrics. The abbreviated twelve-event format was, as the promoters put it, "sequentially choreographed," eliminating the usual clutter caused when two or three events are staged simultaneously. When Pole Vaulter Bob Seagren bounded his way to an easy victory over three opponents by reaching 17 ft. 6 in., the audience was not distracted by competition in the mile run. Another I.T.A. innovation was pacer lights; spaced every ten yards along the track...
...filling the air waves with a series of short-short commercials. A few years ago most TV promotions were 60 seconds long; today the majority are 30 seconds. The past few months have brought the debut of the 15-second commercial, which is certain to increase the confusing clutter on the home screen. Alberto-Culver pairs two 15-second spots in a half-minute time segment to push its For Brunettes Only hair coloring and Calm 2 deodorant. Fearing a possible trend, critics-including Norman B. Cash, president of the Television Bureau of Advertising, an association of TV network...
...first one recognizes its elements - the crumpled guitar, the bottle, the grapes, the brown veined marble of the consoles and mantel top - as signs that "stand for" real things. But the painting, as always in Braque, is full of direct physical insistences: the weight and precarious balance of the clutter on the mantelpiece, almost toppling toward the eye, contrasted with the black void of the fireplace below. And the intricate composition of Braque's major canvases always acts as a way of distributing one's attention among objects as evenly as possible...
...whimsical or preposterous. "We are trying to reach people's minds," says Goldman, "to rekindle the excitement you felt when you first encountered the great professor or the great book or the great concept." ID does not always work as a package. Covers infrequently compel, and the calculated clutter tends to overwhelm on occasion. Goldman concedes that his selection of content is "ultimately a terribly personal thing...
...brown mud from the Susquehanna River has now dried to a white dust. It settles over everything and rims the eyes red. Only 10% of downtown Wilkes-Barre, once under 5 ft. of water, has reopened for business. Piles of debris still clutter the streets. Skulls and limbs washed from the Forty Fort Cemetery are still turning up in backyards. Block after block of houses have been gutted so that you can see from the front yard through to the back. Shrubbery has turned brown-gray; lawns are expanses of dried, cracked...