Word: junking
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...ROOM in Washington, D.C., where I am sitting now (enjoying air-conditioning and unlimited quantities of Breakstone cottage cheese), is full of junk. Books of baseball statistics, ten-year-old issues of Mad, and half-finished cigarette packs. Crap from phases of my life so distant that I might as well be in a stranger's house. Was this how I lived? (I look around and see at least a dozen pencil sharpeners.) God, who knows anymore...
...Belle Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week. All around the land Americans felt a sense of freshness and renewal. Perhaps nothing has changed, but spring makes it seem as though...
...housing crisis and war stem from the same source-a government that is considerably more interested in profits than the welfare of its people. It has the money to send junk to the moon, but not to build decent housing," Kelly said...
...windows. Now a turnabout seems at hand. Goaded to recycle the nation's mounting garbage, individuals as well as industries have spotted new charms in old discards-cans, bottles, light bulbs. Thousands of Americans are enjoying an effort that bears the acronymic description "rejase"-"re-using junk as something else...
Though orange crates make adequate cupboards and aluminum-can pull-tabs can be joined into long jangly curtains, there is a definite limit to the practical re-use of junk. Beyond that point, people invent "junque" art. At the Whole Earth Marketplace in Encino, Calif., eggbeaters plus scraps of waste metal become amusingly stylized model helicopters. New York Literary Agent Peter Matson unabashedly makes collages of stained rags, and paints multishaped polyurethane packing crates, which he duly frames and hangs. "It is a creative act," he says. "It also seems a way to make technology work for me rather than...