After a while, it was impossible to get into the room; you just had to shoulder barge the door, throw your detritus inside and then let it slam again.
While it may seem as though we drift apart, in reality we huddle ever closer, throwing the detritus of our former societies behind us.
This tub is used only as a piece of hopeful detritus thrown at the prison wall of a hangover.
Few details available, but this six-part run is set to follow the same format as the last, in which Skinner and guest comedians interact with audience members to ruminate amusingly, whimsically and often sharply on the detritus thrown up by current affairs.
While attached to the adult shell, the juveniles benefit from food particles in the fine detritus thrown up into the water column by movements of the adult.
Just as an organism struggles in vain to survive, to hold fast, cell by cell, in a world being inexorably pulled apart by cosmic, entropic forces, the stonemason seeks to create order and structure using little, random bits of detritus thrown off of the Earth's grandest cyclic process -- the rock cycle.
Legendary, too, is Mr. Cohen's office, which colleagues say is stacked with mountains of papers, books and other detritus of a self-proclaimed "budget wonk" who hates to throw anything away.
Or is his responsibility simply to throw bombs at all the major edifices and let Mitt Romney waltz through the detritus unscathed?
Between them lay a traffic artery that in the last week has become a no man's land littered with the detritus of the ritualized fighting here: The Palestinian youths dance into the streets hurling stones and firebombs; the Israelis throw back tear-gas canisters and fire rubber-coated metal bullets.
Strewn here on the floor now, stinking of smoke, this pile of banal file-drawer detritus seems transmuted, instant archaeological objects retroactively charged with meaning, too sad and strange to keep but too sad and strange to throw away.
