Word: cluttered
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When they came to see Of A Revolution (OAR) last Wednesday night at the Roxy, they came to abandon something. For one evening, they came to let go of the details of their lives, the clutter of things and people that bind them to place and to the inertia of their day-to-day existence. They threw themselves into the rhythm and followed it wherever it took them. And for a few brief moments, they actually believed they were lost, that there was nowhere and nothing but the music rising in them...
...Washington-based audio-technology firm Harman International Industries. In August, Harman, who is married to Democratic Representative Jane Harman of California, oversaw an $850 million deal to provide entertainment systems for Mercedes. The dashboard components--similar to those Harman already produces for Porsche, Audi and BMW--will replace a clutter of knobs and buttons with a single touchscreen panel that allows drivers to control not only temperature, navigation and stereo sound systems but also access to the Internet, e-mail and video...
...quiet midnight on a muggy weekend in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. Along the city's grimy main artery, Calle Ruben Dario, homeless people are camped out in a clutter of cardboard boxes. Suddenly a caravan of vehicles wheel up, and a handful of youths pile out. They begin ladling plates of steaming beans and rice from kettles in the rear of a pickup truck...
...which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus is dim: the space is uninviting and, on top of that, there's no room among the clutter anyway...
None of the interiors she has designed look capital-D decorated. Also not for her are the empty recesses of stark minimalism. She understands that people collect stuff, and finds a way to let them, without causing clutter. This balancing act lends her interiors a certain timelessness. Her own home, which she decorated seven years ago, mixing custom-made pieces with a chair found in the trash, is still being photographed for decorating magazines...