Word: neatness
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...Pretoria's major industry. The Voortrekker Monument an enormous memorial to the Afrikaaners who walked from the coast into South Africa's heartland in the 1830s, stands over Pretoria just as the Washington monument watches over Washington. Around the city, white residential areas look just like Washington's suburbs: neat houses with well-tended gardens look out over beautifully laid-out streets lined with graceful jacaranda trees...
Fassbinder has composed Despair beautifully. His technique includes various witty framing devices, quirky angles and long-shots, and inspired fooling around with light sources (especially neat when Herman talks with Felix in a dark hotel room, and swings the hanging lamp so that each of them is lit in turn while the other goes dark). The director cleverly conveys the crack-up of Herman's perfect work of art by placing him beside a shattered mirror, which fragments his image...
...ground, chaos spread through a neighborhood of neat small homes and tall palm trees. The bulk of the airliner smashed into houses near Nile and Dwight streets, the more intact remnant of the Cessna about six blocks away. The terrified PSA passengers trapped in the plummeting craft died instantly on impact with the earth. "It was a nonsurvival crash," one investigator said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there...
...hopes to cash in on the craze by developing a course of its own in the neat future. Mark Battey '81, an HSA spokesman, said yesterday...
Worcester changed that. The tallies flashed onto that big color screen--a neat electronic reminder that this game they call politics isn't so different from all the other games you've watched on a big screen, peering through the cigar smoke and hollering at every score--and then the cheers erupted. But they weren't cheers. Screams would be the better word, or maybe squeals: the sheer delight of a naughty five-year-old who wakes up on Christmas morning to find not the threatened lump of coal, but a shiny toy truck in his stocking. Sweet Mother...