Word: haphazardous
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...full-page house ad asking the slightly rhetorical question: "What Sort of Man Reads Playboy!" The answer assures advertisers that the Playboy reader, in his quest for the good life, spares no expense. In a way, the same has been true of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the haphazard corporate empire spawned by the magazine that Hugh M. Hefner founded with several hundred borrowed dollars in 1953. Over the years, PEI has spent millions to give substance to Hefner's sensate fantasies; today Playboy Enterprises include hotels, clubs, movie, record and book publishing businesses and a second magazine, OUI, which...
...Couple. All of these teams run on the same fuel--the big, ponderous straight-man who masterminds the operation always blowing up at the little dumb one, who muffs everything but stumbles on brilliant ideas through his wit. One's neat, one's messy. One's methodical, one's haphazard. It's all there in Oscar and Nicky, who could have synthesized everything that's funny in his paradigm if their relationship had been at all developed...
...RENT control's major faults-obvious in both reports-is its haphazard, complicated administration. As a result of its reliance on local boards which hear each case individually, rent control is run by an unpredictable, bureaucracy floundering in vast amounts of red tape. In the Harbridge House's (taken from projections made by the Rent Board), the average delay between application and final decision on a rent increase in Cambridge is six weeks. The Sternlieb report cites a figure of five and a half months. In either case, by the time an increase has been granted, inflation may already have...
Brimmer did an additional injustice to the students by issuing his reply in a haphazard, derogatory manner. After six weeks of silence on the proposals, he hurriedly replied only after the student coalition led 130 picketers in a demonstration outside Mass Hall--even then his reply, a letter addressed to the students, was released at a press conference before it was mailed to the coalition leaders...
...stylistic fulfillment was such that, like T.S. Eliot in modern poetry, his influence probably did more to stultify than to stimulate new development in photography. When the photographic reaction to Weston came, it was radical--where Weston's images were classically composed, the new snapshot photography has a haphazard look. Where Weston photographed close friends and nature, snapshooters concentrate on man in the urban landscape. Weston worked n almost total isolation from the influence of mass culture--the new wave of photography is highly conscious of the medium's role in a larger society...