Word: haphazard
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Photos of women’s breasts, stacks and stacks of business cards, and cardboard boxes full of promotional Shamrock t-shirts overflow onto couches and haphazard bookshelves. Attached to the office is the lounge, with a TV, couches, and most importantly, a vanity table and mirror where the women straighten their hair, pop pimples, and reapply heavy eyeliner. One stripper darts outside to ask John—Johnny to her—for batteries for her vibrator...
...Box” and “Technitron” line stark white walls separated by utility shelves and black curtains. The studio’s long central table is strewn with crayons and markers and covered in white paper, closer examination of which reveals sketches of cartoon characters, haphazard swirls and scribbles, even notes written back and forth between students...
Somewhere in there, too, is a substantial amount of socio-political subtext, but it’s dropped in such a half-hearted, haphazard manner that any commentary ultimately gets lost among all the flashy explosions. Sure, such lines as “No one pays attention to Africa” pop up now and then, but they appear jarring amidst gunfire battles and elaborate speed-boat chases...
...late. Since 1950, the population of Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada has increased from 1.6 million to 10 million as Americans discover the desert's clean air, warm weather, open spaces and relatively affordable housing. But without zoning codes to restrict it, much of that growth has been distressingly haphazard. By the time the Zeigers began looking for a retirement home in the 1990s, what they found was a lot of strip malls, golf clubs and sprawling subdivisions decorated here and there with cactus plants. They were horrified. "We didn't want to move to a place where they...
...Baffled by Tokyo's maze of alleys, lack of English signage and haphazard street numbering? Then here's some good news: in a trial program lasting until the end of March, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is loaning visitors PDAs designed to make life easier. There are English, Mandarin and Korean versions of the device, each featuring a voice translator, free local calls, unlimited Internet access and sightseeing information...