Word: spotlessness
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...Doors singing Light My Fire. Even the demonstrations that have become the city's most celebrated feature abroad are stylized rites of disorder, public performances in which both sides take time off for lunch and stop fighting for the national anthem. A city like Tokyo is all spotless efficiency, a city like Calcutta all riotous confusion. Seoul, in a sense, is the meeting place of the two, the place where boisterousness collides with planning. Anarchy, you might say, by the numbers...
...great clods of mud on the yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow glowed like sunshine. Several other guests were in the room now, chatting away raucously, as if nothing dirty had ever happened in their midst. The journalist simply stared at the place where the mud had been...
...though, what most distinguishes Tokyo Disneyland from its American forebears is its user-friendly audience. There are no screeching infants along its spotless walkways and no teenagers on the make. At closing time, after soft neon and colored lights have turned the place into a lovely fairyland, there is no frantic rush for the gates. Elegant secretaries and college boys in shirts bearing the vaguely anarchic slogan CIVIL RIGHT FREAK YOU KNOW UNIVERSITY EDUCATION stand in orderly lines until sweetly smiling cheerleaders lead the crowd forward in regimented squads...
...used to take us two months to get permission to film inside one factory," Turner said, "and even then it would be spotless and full of healthy, industrious and cheerful workers...
Only twice since 1970 (Penn in '84 and '86) has the Ivy champion concluded its league campaign with an undefeated mark. And with Cornell still facing tough road trips to Brown (this weekend), Yale and Princeton, the Red will have a quite difficult road to a spotless mark...