Word: clutter
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...fundamentally so unbearable. Scott plays a magnificant wreck of a man, overbearing yet sympathetic, cold because of despair, not heartlessness. Seen first obliquely from behind, he looks like a Grecian noble deep in thought until the camera tracks around to reveal his less-than-heroic profile and the clutter following a solitary drinking bout in a hotel room, a television glowing blankly in the corner...
...their innovative work. Since they occupy a key position in the transformation of an idea into a product, he says, designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids, even a $9.95 inflatable "playgirl" made of "fieshlike vinyl...
...Niven patina was somewhat rudely applied by a clutter of British public schools. At Heatherdown, where he was sent in 1916 when the family finances collapsed, he made a dubious reputation as a practical joker and was expelled for mailing a sick friend some dog droppings. Then came a Dickensian reform school for "difficult boys," followed by a cramming academy under the direction of a terrible-tempered grandson of Robert Browning. Even at stately Stowe, a school he really liked, "Old Stoic" Niven couldn't resist cheating in an exam. He barely made it into Sandhurst, Britain...
...long introductions, phony folksiness and chorus lines with phalanxes of pretty legs flung up into the camera. "The best contribution I can make as a producer is to let the personality shine through on the screen," says Henry. "It's a small tube. If you clutter it up with a lot of people, you lose the most interesting thing in the world-the human face." With simplicity as the keynote, nothing was allowed to overshadow the star-Flip Wilson...
...product of two prime numbers, 31 and 41. That would suggest that the ones and zeros might make sense if they were laid out either as 31 lines containing 41 digits each, or 41 lines of 31 digits. Breaking the message into 41 lines produces only a confusing clutter of zeros and ones, but in 31 lines (shown above), an organized pattern emerges. When that pattern is clarified by substituting dark spots for the ones and blank spaces for the zeros, it speaks volumes to scientific cryptographers. The most obvious information is that the transmitting race consists of two-legged...