Word: junks
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...history, a suite of winged celestial furniture, complete with lecterns, pulpits, vases, an altar and crowns-180 objects in all. Only some of these are actually on exhibit; the throne itself is not, because it is too difficult to move. The entire construction is made out of junk, covered with layers of metal foil and kraft paper. The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they go beyond rococo incrustation into a domain of absolute theatricality. Hampton's vision contains not one depiction...
Congress agreed, and appropriated $2.4 million for an undertaking that the curators had always regarded as impossible, if not downright laughable. The nation's attic was as badly organized as the average homeowner's; junk and jewels had been piling up helter-skelter since 1846, when Congress founded the Smithsonian with a $500,000 bequest from James Smithson, an Englishman who left his estate to establish a national museum...
...though, those gains are endangered. The Corporation appears ready to junk its commitment not to place its funds in banks doing business with the Botha government, not to, in effect, lend money to fund apartheid. Through the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the Corporation gave indications last week that they would consider the nature of any loans to the government. Were they "humanitarian" in nature, they might be allowed...
Tomorrow their junk will be towed to Gin Drinker's Bay, the place designated by the Hong Kong authorities as an elephants' graveyard for the vessels of the boat people. There it will either be burned straight away or await burning with other wrecks on a jetty directly across the water from a hill of gray gravestones and a blue columbarium. The engines, which do not burn, lie heaped like brown skulls beside the remains of tillers that were made with welded pipes. Only a few boats rest in Gin Drinker's Bay now, smoldering near the scavenging dogs. There...
Climbing aboard was easy. Pham, who was out by himself fishing one day, simply saw the junk take off from Haiphong, and on he hopped...