Word: clutter
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...Hodgkin's orderly mind seems to thrive on a diet of clutter and clatter. After graduation from Oxford, when she went into research, her first lab was in a dingy basement under the university museum. It was her precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule...
...Heraldic Clutter...
...attribute not shared by the pop art of today: it was popular. The most popular of the artists of that time, Maxfield Parrish, now 93, painted book illustrations and calendars that were reproduced by the millions. College boys hung his works in their rooms amidst a clutter of crew oars, fencing foils and mooseheads. From a first cover for Harper's Weekly in 1895, he painted on to become the country's best-paid artist...
...reason is that even with the Times's resources, covering New York City and its populous suburbs is a herculean problem. The megalopolis, from Greenwich, Conn., to Greenwich Village, East Hampton to the West 90s, encompasses one of the world's most diffuse, complex and heterogeneous clutter of communities. No single daily can easily reach all the assorted facets and tastes of Greater New York. In fact, none of Manhattan's dailies has ever really bothered...
...Kentucky Derby-not by a long shot. The start is a cavalry charge, the tight turns at Churchill Downs are treacherous, and the big field always includes a handful of no-account horses, whose owners can forever brag, "My horse ran in the Derby." They never win, but they clutter up the course. Then, the Derby being the Derby, there are bound to be ways of losing that nobody has thought up yet. Jockey Shoemaker should know. Seven years ago he hit on a dandy himself. Aboard Gallant Man, he had the race all but won in the stretch when...