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...America Beautiful. "A one-day cleanup doesn't accomplish anything," explained Sidney H. Estes, assistant superintendent for instruction for the Atlanta public schools and chairman of the Atlanta Clean City Commission. "Unless you educate people and change their Uttering behavior, you be back up to your knees in junk a day later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Clean Sweep in Georgia | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

When she describes a sensuous experience, like going swimming, Hellman reaches for her Hemingway: "The water was the right temperature, everything was good, everything was better." She has kept a large vocabulary out of Dashiell Hammett, her longtime companion, and gang ster films. "Stuff' and "junk" are all-purpose nouns; a restaurant is a "steak joint" or a "fish dump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...wanna talk about the real junk...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: The True Trash Aesthetic | 4/26/1980 | See Source »

With any luck, the Crimson should come alive against Lockenmeyer, who depends on overpowering his opposition. So far this year, most of the Harvard hitters have been having trouble with "junk" pitchers, so they should hit the Princeton ace hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Battles Tigers Today; Larson to Face Princeton Ace | 4/18/1980 | See Source »

Which is not to say most will not find something useful or valuable. It includes, for example, caloric counts for popular junk food items (A Whopper has 606 compared to a Big Mac's 557); a broad bibliography; a profile of wunderkind Bill Rodgers; a re-evaluation of the specious but spiritually uplifting legend of Pheidippiedes; a thourough survey of running equipment, apparel, and periodicals; and up to the minute status reports on the latest pertinent medical studies...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Certain Fixxation | 4/16/1980 | See Source »

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