Word: junking
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Freedom from Frills. Like Thomas E. Colvin, the naval architect who designed and built the lovely junk-rigged schooner Gazelle, the men who drew the lines of all these boats are men whose restless imaginations were shaped by the same traditions that molded Colin Archer-the traditions and demands of the sea. Simplicity, sturdiness and an utter freedom from frills are the hallmark of their work...
...built nearly 200 boats, he has been on the beach long enough. Now 48, he has put his shop and his home up for sale, put his drawing table and drafting instruments aboard ship, and is getting ready to go to sea once more in a new aluminum junk of his own design. "I'm not retiring," he insists. "But I've paid my dues I ashore. I'm going sailing." Which means, as any cruising man knows, he is going back to the good life...
...Junk. Perhaps it has something to do with an obsession of Leni's that prefigures Au.'s method. As a girl in a convent school, Leni learned to worship the orderly function of her organs, and the instruction had the force of an epiphany. Later she undertook her life's work: reproducing, with a child's paintbox and brush, "a cross section of one layer" of a nun's retina-6,000,000 cones and 100 million tiny rods...
...honor of finally driving Dwayne over the brink. Now that I'm free, I want to deny that I ever existed in this novel; I was the unwilling dupe in a mad production. Vonnegut won't get off by claiming he's clearing his head "of all the junk in there." He can't expect me, his own creation, to sympathize with him when he tells his schizophrenic self in a bar in his own novel that he's writing a "very bad book...
...American living abroad, I am aghast when I return home to see the amount of food thrown away each week by average middle-class families in the U.S. And if less were spent on so-called junk foods (soft drinks, sweets and snacks) it seems to me that Americans could be eating steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meat prices are too high, but Americans are spoiled and the rest of the world is unsympathetic...