Word: cluttering
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...often thought that Vonnegut is so popular among us youths because his mind is bent by the exact same flashes that clutter the minds of the TV - weaned, let's-go-take-over-that-building - next generation. For instance, I was grumbling just the other day with some revolutionary cohorts about how we could best spread out culture once we took over. It was decided to pave over the whole of Southeast Asia to make way for one gigantic Frosty's, the world's biggest. Then I read that Billy Pilgrim, the hero of Slaughterhouse-Five, the character we identify...
...Broadway PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen stars in his new play as an exposed clutter of neu roses, guilts and self-recriminations, mostly centering around his lack of success with women. Coached by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart, Allen does get a girl: he winds up in bed with his best friend's wife. The play does not properly progress along with the evening, but Allen's kooky angle of vision and nimble jokes are amusement enough...
...bear and the British lion ruffling the feathers of the Turkish turkey. The animations, done in the style of period Punch cartoons, are wittily rendered by Richard Williams. But when they work, they vitiate the dramatic effect of the live actors. When they are only decorative, they are mere clutter...
...that the McCarthy people couldn't supply enough cars to pick us up; their gas pool had run out of money. The cabbie showed us the area's few points of interest. Indianapolis is a city whose parks are littered with preserved tanks and artillery the way some people clutter their coffee tables with bronzed baby shoes. Many of its public buildings are self-conscious copies of old Washington favorites. Its war memorials offer some of the most embarrassing examples of social realism west of Leningrad. And right smack in the center of the whole city is the Soldiers...
...heat of competition, the makeup of both papers shows more excitement than judgment: a clutter of stories thrown together without much sense of proportion. But at the same time, fewer Cleveland stories than ever before are escaping the watchful eye of the two papers. No matter which one wins the circulation battle, the ultimate winners are Cleveland's readers...