Yet Kaufman composed the book in an almost presciently postmodern style, largely assembling her story through an accretion of found objects: bureaucratic circulars, homework assignments, wastebasket contents, doodles, and interoffice memos among teachers.
Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
He also got pep pills, analgesic tablets, a bottle of shampoo, etc. Unaccountably, he was seized with an acute sense of ingratitude... Acting quickly, he gathered up every vestige of friendliness in sight and dumped the stuff in a wastebasket.
When I lectured to students I walked up and down with my cigar, dropping ashes in a tin wastebasket.
Indeed, McCarthy wrote to Arendt that Trilling, who had written to the N.Y.R.B. criticizing McCarthy's report on Vietnam, "is such a fool, if she didn't occupy her absurd place in the New York establishment, they would have thrown her letter in the wastebasket".
Nachman put the bills in one pile and dropped junk mail, unopened, into a wastebasket.
After the gangsters left, Skinny Zyama picked up the business card and flicked it into his wastebasket.
But that day, to Siyu's surprise, Professor Dai had not simply dismissed her from the doorway, even though she had immediately placed the present, a framed painting of a golden carp, next to the wastebasket.
At The New Yorker, people used to lurk outside his door listening for the sound of typing, and would scurry in when he left, looking for manuscript pages in the wastebasket.
She was at lunch so… A young mother finds among some wadded balls of paper in the wastebasket of her ten-year-old daughter one which read: "Humphrey Mandelbaum looked at the… A little old man laden down with parcels got on a Madison Avenue bus during the rush hour.
The bathroom wastebasket of Room 201 was overflowing with blood-soaked bandages.
