Word: haphazard
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FROM ONE perspective, it is easy to sympathize with Patullo's frustration in the face of Harvard's haphazard planning. President Bok's fund for innovation in education is a convenient case in point...
...Mama Leone's opened almost a half century ago in New York where it justifiably earned a name as one of the better Italian restaurants with its strengths resting in the variety and quantity of food that the waiters insisted you really could eat. The restaurant expanded in a haphazard way and the jumble of dining rooms, stairways, and doorways helped the now large New York restaurant to maintain some of its intimacy even after it was bought out by Restaurant Associates. Inc. Restaurant Associates operates perhaps the world's most exclusive chain of restaurants, including Forum...
...first to be a paroxysm of gratuitous violence. In the largest piece, Clam Digger (1972), De Kooning's love of direct action reaches the outer limits of credibility: this mud-footed golem, clumping along inside his ridged, tormented epidermis, is all gesture, assuming form in a challengingly haphazard way. De Kooning's sculptures admittedly look regressive. They evoke memories of the European Expressionism of the 1950s-Dubuffet's turnip men and the familiar postwar imagery of the human figure as disaster area. Thus Figure XII, 1970, lying with outflung arms on a bronze-cast roof tile, obscurely...
Faculty appointments in the GSD have always been pursed in a haphazard fashion, generally through the personal recommendation of one faculty member to the dean. This procedure--affectionately known as the "buddy" system--has served the Design School's purpose well. The system is self-perpetuating--the GSD faculty is primarily male--and usually recommends male applicants...
...posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches of arid soil-makes it impossible to support the continued migration. Legislators, scientists and citizens are now openly concerned about the threat of "Californication"-the haphazard, mindless development that has already gobbled up most of Southern California. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton recently spent two weeks traveling throughout the West, taking the measure of Californication and the attempts being made to stop it. Her report...