Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Erving travels, throws up some junk...
...door to a constitutional right. Bunting has been so good at his work that many local folk assume he is "a conjure doctor," a devil's ally who "can read your mind like it's you thinking." Bunting modestly demurs: "Country people, you know. They put a lot of junk on me. Many times, though, it's what kept me alive...
Some experts dispute the merits of the MAC as an effective weapon. One law- enforcement official calls the short-barreled machine pistol "a piece of junk" that is difficult to control. Miami Police Officer Robert P. Davis, who has tested MACs, disagrees: "They are devastating in automatic form. They are like spraying water from a hose." The MAC-10 greatly outnumbers another gun favored by criminals, the compact Israeli-made UZI. That well-built weapon is more accurate, but it is more expensive at around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...
...chaos of the First World War by a German collagist, poet and would-be dramaturge, Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). The scenario casts a long shadow. Schwitters' ambition to assault all the senses with a megalomaniac collage of real things onstage is the middle term between Wagner and the plotless, junk-crammed happenings that were the talk of the New York art world in the early '60s. The more one sees of Schwitters, the more Robert Rauschenberg's and Jasper Johns' work in the '50s seems to owe to him: the stuffed goat, the paint-soaked bed, the light bulb...
...yesterday took over as administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, kept his large University Hall office immaculate enough to prominently display several sets of toy trains, assorted pieces of junk from the renovations to Winthrop House, and bluebooks detailing the entire history of the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...