Word: detritus
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While banning smoking from the Yard wouldn't cause any undue injustice, it would improve the quality of my life immensely. For example, I would not walk to class every morning over a carpet of the detritus smokers leave behind in the evident assumption that the Cigarette Butt Fairy is coming to pick up after them shortly. My common room would not reek of the smoke that drifts up from the courtyard where I live. I would be able to walk past the Widener steps, the doors of Sever Hall and numerous other areas which are, technically...
...Fanny, Mary (Rachel Siegel), and Alexandra (Jessie Cohen) near our century they encounter the detritus of the '50s--egg beaters, "I Like lke" buttons, phonograph records, a big inflated banana...
...meantime, however, we're going to have to put up with the detritus of the Harvard climate: Yard puddles big enough to canoe in, library books that look like they've been through the rinse cycle, and the disturbing fact that the Science Center, despite its many architectural charms, leaks like the Nixon White House...
Catching the wave of a profitable gimcrack trend -- that explains why people make these movies. But why do people pay to see them? Are filmgoers, like conscientious environmentalists, determined to recycle everything, including the detritus from the glowing box in their living room? Are they so afraid of the present that they take refuge in the airiest, least threatening artifacts of their past? Even so-called contemporary movies, like Reality Bites, make iconic references to '70s TV shows. Even so-called original movies have the relentless closeups, the pummeling pace, the insistent underscoring and the audience-prodding reaction shots...
...close examination of the detritus lying in the wake of last week's frenzied lobbying reveals that this debate has been instructive in revealing the enormity of the political challenges which face us in a post-Cold War environment. Lost in the debate however, was the fact that the terms of engagement between industrialized and developing countries, between the North and South have been redefined...