Word: cluttering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat while his estates and his income go to pot. The book first finds him in bed, for Oblomov is a Russian Hamlet, except for a lower I.Q., and his daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter. Friends drop in and try to lure him into making the social rounds, but he shoos them off. Parasitical cronies cadge a few rubles from him, while his decrepit old manservant grumps and bemoans the good old days. For a good 100 pages, Author Goncharov drains every drop of social...
...Kensington studio last week, amid a clutter of cigarette stubs and old paint tubes, Smith was busily working on three or four paintings at once. He is not at all disheartened by the wide spread between his critical and financial successes. His first show sold only four of his paintings for a total of $336, but that was enough to pay for his room in Kensington, his food, an occasional night at the local pub, cigarettes and hardboard (cheaper than canvases) for six months. His second show has sold only three pictures, for $315, to private collectors. Says Smith defiantly...
...junglelike clutter and heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss...
Even the Corporation's 170 buildings seem a procession of contrasts. Though the seven collegiate houses (i.e., the upperclassmen's living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to Bui-finch, to H. H. Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled...
...Sycamore, Illinois," he says. "I was the announcer. The local township orchestra was directed by a girl named Florence Wollensock, and I made the mistake of calling her 'Cot-tonsock' several times. The soloist on the same show was a girl named Lulu Clutter, and the accordionist was Charlie Pittlecow. If that wasn't an announcer's nightmare...