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...what people can put in their yards or do to their houses, and in Celebration a long list of restrictions is written into the sales contracts for every house. Example: no clothes on the line in any front yard. But at the same time, there will be no litter to worry about. At the recent drawing and Celebration celebration, the confetti had hardly hit the ground before a Disney confetti picker materialized to sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...Sarasota, Florida. He first created it as a lark for a friend in 1947, but Lowe soon realized its potential--and for a while his own name became almost as famous as the catchy moniker he bestowed on the household staple that earned him millions of dollars: Kitty Litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 16, 1995 | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...morning, a serpent of lights begins to coil up Mount Sinai--up the path Moses took, a sparkling procession of tourists' flashlights. As dawn arrives, you see less lovely effects--the litter of candy wrappers, soda cans and Kodachrome boxes people have discarded on the ascent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I CAME, I SAW, I SPOILED EVERYTHING | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

Beneath Carpaccio's dragon lies a kind of Bosnian litter: half-devoured bodies . skulls . busy, slithering snakes. The painting St. George and the Dragon is a vision of evil perfectly at home in the late 20th century, even though the artist imagined it almost 500 years ago. It gleams like a premonition in the garage-dim Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. What is missing from the picture in 1995, of course, is the St. George part -- the rescue: Evil impaled, Good's shining blond revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EVIL AT THE DRAGON'S FEET | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...tricky business of walking in unison while shackled. Clad in immaculate white uniforms (emblazoned with the words chain gang lest anyone mistake them for pastry chefs), the men are equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work song, but no one else joins in. Perhaps they're too busy looking forward to their lunch of bread smeared with jam. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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