Word: clutter
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...methods make little distinction between the kind of star-schlock in which intergalactic cops battle hypothyroid blobs, and a well-wrought literary work in which far-reaching concepts and social problems are dramatized with intelligence, wit and verbal skill. Even the better SF writers often find it necessary to clutter their prose with spectacular appliances and baptize their earthlings with names full of such Siamese vowels and miscegenated consonants as in Tklook and Klaarv...
...line. In this deft and funny account of a stay at a Welsh fishing hotel, originally written as an Esquire piece, Novelist (Home from the Hill) William Humphrey encourages the reader to savor the eccentricities of both men and fish. His characters include an admiral whose refusal to clutter his memory with such matters as his children's names enables him to recall the exact conditions (water temperature, wind direction, barometric pressure, tackle, fly, etc.) under which he killed every salmon for 42 years. Another is a man called Holloway, who more than adequately compensates for his regular failure...
This is only a flaw in an icy gem. Petri's calculating direction is too swift and merciless to allow the clutter to become insuperable. Volonte, meanwhile, invests the role of the cold, internally rent inspector with brutal authority, giving credence to the proposition that if justice is blind, so is its terrible opposite...
...part of the campaign to improve the broadcasting, BBI plans to change the commercial format. "We want to cut down on the amount of clutter that's presented. When you string six or eight commercials together, the people don't benefit, and the advertiser isn't getting his money's worth," said Poorvu...
...skill and concision-or perhaps because of them-the book is too schematic. It also seems a rather self-consciously "modern" novel. Though the author's descriptive grasp of madness is frightening, Lise appears to suffer from an almost textbook urban psychosis. She is set about with a clutter of literary devices: the contrast between the repressed North and the chaotic South, the carefully anonymous settings, the intrusive hints that Lise is either like a street whore or a bride on her way to a blood wedding. Lise has, in effect, created and peopled her own demonic world...