Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...
...couple of inches of water, unable to raise their heads from the gutter. Now the drought is expanding into other areas. In Harar province's Danakil Desert, the nomadic tribesmen are in danger of dying out as a race. Carcasses of their cattle, sheep, goats and camels litter the desert; the surviving animals are so scrawny that cows, once worth $60 in the marketplace, now go for $3. "Everywhere there are Danakil graves," cabled Griggs, "small mounds covered with rocks to prevent hungry hyenas from digging up and devouring the bodies. Some Danakil dead have been found with dirt...
...metal existentialism and a portrait of Southern California absurdism that is still unrivaled. Zardoz, his sixth film, loses something of its predecessors' fighting trim. Although Boorman excels at expressing ideas through action, too many of them, and too muddled, are tossed off here and left lying about like litter...
...leave the well-plowed environs of Harvard Square will note snow-clogged side streets for days after any storm. Cambridge citizens, and growing numbers of students and faculty, have fallen prey to a crime rate that ranks seventh among all cities in the nation. Sidewalks overflow with uncollected litter, and the efforts of conservation-minded groups to bundle newspapers for recycling are thwarted by the erratic "schedule" of trash collection. And a city that boasts more planners and designers per square inch than any other has proven incapable of halting the flight of industry, or even offering events...
...very intriguing institution. Harvard alumni are notorious for succeeding in their chosen professions, and B-school alumni are especially notorious. Slightly under one tenth of the companies on the Fortune 500 list of the largest corporations in the country are run by B-school graduates, and other graduates litter the landscape in other economic interstices where they obtain wealth and exercise power, even if they do not attract fame. The B-school supposedly has a very viable and active old boys network--its graduates look out for each other. As business schools go, Harvard's has the best reputation...