Word: rubbishing
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...what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack anything they think comes from the Establishment...
...Good for Treasure. Ancient rubbish, garbage and human excreta are easily detectable. So are buried walls, whose stones usually have different magnetic properties from the material that covers them. Empty spaces, such as buried tombs, stick out like magnetic sore thumbs. Most conspicuous of all are objects of iron or steel, but the magnetometer does not detect gold and silver, and it will be of little use to treasure seekers...
Even with efforts at modern packaging by Barth, these are still items of cultural rubbish handed down from primitive...
...thinks that the statue was part of Sulla's booty already crated for loading on one of his ships. Very likely a fire in the waterfront warehouse reduced its packing material to black ashes. In the confusion of war, no one noticed the statues. Weeds grew high, rubbish accumulated, and when Piraeus was rebuilt, a street ran over the place...
...surely one of the world's greatest documents," lamented Dief, "and I wanted to have it badly. But the TV cameras were on us, and I felt it would be undignified for a representative of Canada -and a nonsmoker at that-to be televised rooting through a rubbish basket...