Word: disarrayed
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...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...
Though the American room was closed for refurbishing, and in a plaster-splashed state of disarray, Molotov got a good look at contemporary American abstractions, the kind of thing condemned in the periodic Soviet blasts at "bourgeois, formalist art." Molotov came to a full halt before a painting called The Flying...
...five-story building is given over to museum purposes. Much of the space is filled with the offices of professors in such fields as anthropology, botany, geology, and zoology. These officers, too reflect the general disarray of the ancient building which houses them. One such belongs to Marland P. Billings, professor of geology, shown working with two of this students...
...Hopper's street scenes, hotel lobbies, lunch counters, gas stations and movie houses never seem temples of the human spirit, they do look very much like what they are: expressions of human striving in all its disarray. The disarray, the occasional sordidness, are only pointed up by the pristine order and clarity of his composition. Hopper's subject matter is almost invariably common, his art contrastingly austere. He presents common denominators in a monumental...
With his plans in disarray around him, Nehru subsided into grumbling silence. It was the cue for Chou Enlai, in his most generous mood, to step forward...