Word: haphazardous
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...Curfew's plot skips around, it seems intentional. By making events take on an almost haphazard quality, Donoso shows that to live under a military dictatorship is to learn that death, imprisonment and torture are unregulated and arbitrary things. Though the action is somewhat difficult to follow, the novel itself is intriguing, and one can only hope that Donoso's words will inspire a new generation of Chileans to fight for the freedom and love they deserve...
...collects, the odd instants it can freeze for further study -- were its unacknowledged assets. Given the proper attention, they would draw viewers into departments of feeling where standard pictures would never take them. To the unprepared, and even sometimes to the well prepared, there are Winogrands that indeed look haphazard and slight -- dedicated studies of unyielding scenes. But for every one that mumbles, there are a dozen that fit together a bracing new kind of declaration. His pictures have their own kind of muscle and spine, enough to push out the boundaries of art. And, for that matter, to lift...
...disparities he has created in moving the setting of the play from 1700 to the present by turning World into theater of the absurd. Thus, the actors dress according to the personality of their characters, which might have been a helpful and amusing device, had the execution been less haphazard. Most of the costumes either add nothing in the way of characterization or worse, create an image that is incongruous with the characters. The musical interludes, which range from Billie Holiday to George Michael, are meaningless and inapproprate to the plot...
Cynicism is rampant because enforcement by the Federal Election Commission is belated and haphazard. Not until 1987 did Walter Mondale's campaign pay a slap-on-the-wrist fine for grossly exceeding the Iowa and New Hampshire limits in 1984. Ronald Reagan too went way over the New Hampshire cap in 1980. Even FEC Press Official Sharon Snyder concedes, "If you were to look at all the prior campaigns, you'd get the feeling that the ones who got to the conventions were those who went over the spending limits in Iowa and New Hampshire...
Boston's Blackstone Block is just such a marvelous chunk of city. Wedged between restored Faneuil Hall Marketplace and city hall, Blackstone Block is a seemingly haphazard labyrinth of buildings from several centuries strung along narrow, zigzagging streets. This jam-packed patchwork is, in extremely concentrated form, the natural look of cities, of anything created over time by many hands. Certain tacit rules apparently governed the 250-year accretion of buildings in Blackstone Block -- rules about material (red brick) and height (seven stories maximum) -- but within those constraints houses and workshops were demolished and built as circumstances demanded over...