One local newspaper described the works Beckmann championed as "just plain junk".
Others lean against mounds of his raw materials -- half-open bales of cotton, containers of screws, paper, fabric remnants and just plain junk.
Gallego and her husband, Al, frequent estate sales around Fresno, Calif., acquiring truckloads of antiques or just plain junk out of people's attics and cellars.
It'll be hard at first, but once you stop adding sentimental value to things that are just plain junk, you'll find that you have a lot more space than you think.
Today the 349 boxes -- which also contain what even the most conscientious archivist might consider to be plain old junk -- are temporarily stored in a hot and unventilated city-owned building in Queens.
The Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, an extravaganza of antiques, knickknacks and plain old junk, is open weekends 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues; www.hellskitchenfleamarket.com.You can wander among 170 booths, and if you get hungry, there are stands selling fruit, pies and other snacks.
The wildly popular Web auctioneer of Pez, Pokmon and plain old junk went dark for 22 hours in early June, stranding millions of pack rats, derailing nearly $4 million in fees and erasing $5 billion in market value.
Their diet consists of variations on a theme of junk: waffles, plain pizza ("Pepperoni costs money," Halley says), and cans of soda — Moonee even gargles with the stuff, as if it were mouthwash.
One commenter likened Dr. Epstein's predicament with malware to "a catastrophe in plain sight problem," like "space junk, fracking, global warming".
Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, ignored his responsibility, even as junk mortgage lending proliferated in plain sight.
Standing in front of a bed heaped with junk, he informs the camera with apparent detachment: "This is like an alluvial flood plain, with layers and layers of deposits".
