Word: rubbishing
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Possession's tidy ending drew questions from the crowd. "You like a story to finish," Byatt answered. "Stories do end. Relationships end. The idea that something open-ended is more life-like is rubbish. I wanted [Possession] to have the artificial pleasure of the circle being closed...
...City, a poor Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad, is equally reticent. During the rebellion, soldiers cordoned off the neighborhood for three days and searched every house for weapons, killing 200 people in the process, according to a source close to the Iraqi army. Today all is quiet in the rubbish-strewn streets, but the memory lingers. "Go away," the headmistress entreats when asked simply to comment on daily life in Iraq. "It is dangerous for us and dangerous for the school...
...never before given much thought to where that garbage goes. Lately, I've heard some disturbing numbers. Of the four pounds of rubbish that I produce per day--about 1500 pounds per year--86 percent is dumped in landfills. States in the east have just about run out of room, so they ship their trash away--about 15 million tons per year of the stuff...
...other hand, it is not easy to know how to respond effectively to this kind of provocation--draw attention to it by posting people next to the posters and shouting "Rubbish...
...should not come about." Wolffsohn examined the East German documents last summer, but they won't be seen again soon. After unification, the archives came under federal German rules and were sealed for 30 years. Elan Steinberg, W.J.C. executive director, calls the East German version of the meeting "rubbish. The credibility of the source of those records is not very great." And in May 1990, Bronfman said the W.J.C. viewed German unification as inevitable...