Word: junking
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...nothing out of the ordinary. Avatar differs only in that it is published in the Boston area, where such publications are traditionally frowned on. Soon after it first appeared last spring, city fathers grew restive. Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone by calling it the "filthiest junk I have ever laid eyes on." News dealers heard a warning in this, and some stopped selling...
...slab of his prose to show what is unsatisfactory about his work; to quote anything less is even more unfair because his prose comes in great untrimmed slabs. Sample: "But the mysterious beautiful thing of going to sea occurred that night: just a few hours after all that junk of bars, fighting, streets, subways, boom, there I am standing by the whipping shrouds and snapping lines in the Atlantic Ocean in the night off New Jersey, we're sailing south to Norfolk to load on for Italy, everything is washed away by the clean sea . . . The stars...
...Danny in order to get revenge. His lawyer made the same plea last week as he defended Escobedo against charges of being involved in the possession and sale of 59 Ibs. of heroin. This time it didn't work. Escobedo had made the mistake of selling the junk to a federal narcotics agent. Unless he wins another appeal, Escobedo, 28, faces from 20 to 80 years in prison...
...bleak. The saturation effect which may block further changes by the CEP-Faculty route does not apply to the HPC audits which grow steadily more prestigious and powerful. The first of the great audits brought major changes in the Government Department. One this fall led the History Department to junk junior generals Monday. Three minor changes the HPC recommended in History and Literature drew an immediate response, and the HPC Arch Sci committee, working with like-minded Faculty members, was able to write the prospectus for a new department...
...bogey that dominates the stage is an 11-ft. form sculpted out of assorted junk, an effigy caricaturing the godhead of white power as it might be conceived by the black African mind. The huge breadbox mouth flaps open to emit the platitudes of white domination, the solace of the white man's religion, the equity of the white man's law. The cast play the colonizers of Angola and the colonized interchangeably, singing Brechtian ditties that sardonically mock the oppressors and vivify the laments of the oppressed...