Word: disarrayed
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...flowing resume substituting for characterization; the itemized contents of a lost wallet, including credit cards, club memberships and photographs, heavily making the point that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...
...early trip to the polls is all the more attractive because of the disarray in the Labor Party, which has been battered by the divisive antics of its far-left wing and by its calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Kinnock will try to recover ground this week when he is set to meet with President Reagan in Washington and tell him that he supports keeping U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks continue. Meanwhile, Thatcher will burnish her foreign policy credentials when she travels to Moscow next week to confer with Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...show's usual $1.6 million an episode, already well above average for an hour show. Because of the ultrafast dialogue, scripts average 95 pages, compared with about 60 for a typical TV hour, and take ten to twelve days to shoot (eight for most shows). Much of the production disarray, however, can be traced to Caron, 32, a portly ex-writer for Remington Steele. Co-workers describe him as a perfectionist who thrives on working close to deadlines and asking for last-minute major changes. The six staff writers have learned to cope with life on the edge. Says...
...hope is what sustains the family," she said. "There may be a lot of disarray in the government now. But President Reagan has reaffirmed his faith in the hostages. I think he is strongly committed to these...
Initially the First Lady considered Regan's tight management hierarchy a welcome change after the occasional disarray of the troika that ran the first- term White House. But she became annoyed when the overbearing chief of staff seemed to arrogate presidential decision-making responsibilities to himself during Reagan's convalescence from cancer surgery...