Word: wheelbarrowfuls
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...treasure-and a welcome sight in homes that would not dream of entertaining any other member of his race. He was a musical genius, a remarkable technician of the trumpet who went on to even wider fame as a singer. The fact that his voice sounded exactly like a wheelbarrow crunching its way up a gravel driveway made no difference at all. Legends don't need voices...
...rebellion against the lofty subject matter, plushy rhetoric and rocking-horse rhyme scheme of the past. Pound demanded a poetry "direct, free from emotional slither." Hulme insisted "it is essential to prove that beauty may be in small, dry things." Williams Carlos Williams, whose five-line poem The Red Wheelbarrow is perennially quoted as the purest imagist creation ever, announced: "Anything that the poet can effectively lift from its dull bed by force of the imagination becomes his material. Anything. The commonplace, the tawdry, the sordid all have their poetic uses...
John W. Black, manager of the Saks University Shop, expressed little con-cern yesterday over the issues raised by NECBGS or the planned boycott of his store. "To be sure, the people in the minority classes can push a wheelbarrow and move trash, but that doesn't mean they can fill skilled jobs," Black said. He doubted that his customers, mostly college students, would respect the picket lines...
...third notable is Chico the Bum. He has a wheelbarrow with an enormous carton in it, inscribed in various-colored crayons, "The Traveling Litter Basket." He roams the town cleaning out gutters and picking up trash at certain stores, all for free...
...fence, broke into a storage shed and dragged out a Sidewinder missile. An air-to-air heat-seeking weapon used by American planes in Viet Nam, the Sidewinder is about 9½ ft. long and weighs 165 Ibs. Undaunted, the trio trundled the missile to their car in a wheelbarrow, broke the car's rear window to fit the rocket in, wrapped a rug around its protruding end, and drove more than 100 miles across West Germany to an undisclosed city...