Word: haphazard
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...Aida houses may be facile, yet they do delight: toy building blocks are a cheerful transcultural artifact, and the mock-haphazard assemblages are lively, seemingly half built or half demolished. The Toys R Us aspect seems American, but the unfinished quality is pure Japanese. Says Aida: "Fundamentally I find myself swinging back and forth between two basic lines of influence -- Japanese tradition and Western culture. I am attracted as much by Kandinsky, for instance, as I am by modern Japanese writers...
Before the Brown ruling, Kansas drew a haphazard color line between its schools, prohibiting segregation of all but elementary schools in most cities. By the time the court handed down its decision, Smith had enrolled in a junior high school in which blacks and whites had attended mixed classes for more than a decade. Says she: "I basically had the same experiences I would have had if the decision had not been handed down...
Kennedy has become the case study for sex in presidential politics, but, as so often happens in such emotional matters, the study is haphazard. There is every reason to believe that Kennedy's desire for women was as strong when he was Senator and candidate as it was when he was President. Yet there were no sightings of him arm in arm on a lonely night street, no public confessions by inamoratas, no telephone records or photos. The crowded turmoil of his campaign was his screen. Attractive women and men were almost always around, even in his bedrooms...
...come to the rescue with a retrospective of his work, on view through April 5. There are tentative plans for it to travel to other cities, and it should, to spread the word again that Klein was crucial to the camera world's postwar taste for more offbeat and haphazard imagery; he helped set the mood from which photographers like Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus sprang...
...lost in the tumble of revelations about Iranscam have been the details of what Oliver North and his free-lance operatives were actually doing. How did they transfer weapons and carry out their intricate dealings? The erratic journeys of a small Danish freighter provide a glimpse of the haphazard way the operations worked -- or didn...