Word: junking
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...weeks ago are still there, fossilized, sandy brown, ugly to look at and awkward to walk across. The detritus of the fall season -a ruptured garden hose, a squashed tennis-ball can, a broken-off ax handle thrown away in a fury-surrounds the house as such junk always does in New England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods beyond, has accomplished the ultimate deceit by not falling...
...THIS IS JUNK, and not even the good junk that we've come to expect from Neil Simon. Many of the touches in the movie are familiar--you will probably recognize your own refrigerator--and once an hour one of Simon's characters delivers a comic yet profound line about American relationships on the run in the 1970s. But Chapter Two, an adaptation of Simon's long-running Broadway play, never grasps onto more than the obvious...
...heard before. Since one artist, not even a great one (and the '70s produced precious few great ones), rarely constitutes a genre, the decade became widely perceived as one of artistic fragmentation. The public, not understanding the work it was being presented, quite naturally dismissed most of it as "junk"; the artists, perhaps justifiably but more likely arrogantly or even lazily, began using their work to indulge their whims and fantasies, not caring whether it would arouse a spark of recognition, passion, or even shock in the viewer. The old debate regarding the social utility of art should have been...
...Haldemans, Jaworskis, Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder and typewriter and produced books to cash in on the scandal. A headlong rush to excess profits was joined in the '70s by oil companies, sports stars negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts and writers whose most meretricious junk could command seven-figure advances...
...Louis Comfort Tiffany dumped carloads of the then unpopular art nouveau glassware that bears his stamp; a well-preserved rare Tiffany lamp today can be worth up to $150,000. By one estimate, the U.S. boasts 22 million collectors of one kind or another, mostly another. There are no junk stores any more, only antique shoppes...