Word: junks
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...Pierre's communes, old junk leads to new lives
...clothing, rows of used appliances and abandoned furniture, and assorted bric-a-brac. All in all, an appropriate setting for the annual get-together of the "Emmaus movement," which has shown thousands of people in 23 countries around the world how to rebuild their self-esteem by recycling the junk of the consumer society...
There are few such dispensaries, however. And the rule of thumb is that if the cost of repair is more than one-third of the original purchase price of the appliance, better junk...
...book, turning out a solid first act. The action--or lack thereof--takes place in a secondhand shop in a city, later revealed as Chicago in a passing reference. Three characters complete the cast, and everything transpires in the shop itself, elaborately designed and filled with junk props. The Off-Broadway's technical crew must be a good one, with careful attention paid to minute details like the drab, industrial green paint on the walls and even a dripping faucet...
They are stock characters. It does not take a very penetrating eye to notice that some Florida tourists resemble wizened monkeys in floral shirts, or that some American housewives are fat, glazed by the tube and bloated with junk food. But such is the level of Hanson's social perceptions; all his art can do is count the details without furnishing any credible in sights. Like most "documentation" art, it is gratuitous, in a sprawling kind...