Word: haphazards
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...black movement illustrates the unstable leadership which results from its haphazard process of virtual representation. For better or worse, community control has come to mean internecine warfare. Walzer clearly believes in black solidarity and worker solidarity, at least as some transcendent precipitant of social division, but he indicates how hard it is to represent this solidarity through legitimate, democratic process...
Making the movie was an enormous and sometimes haphazard undertaking. Director-Cinematographer Michael Wadleigh organized a 25-man crew on only a few days' notice, shot over 120 hours of footage, then edited it all down in a frantic seven months. It is no small tribute to Wadleigh's dexterity that the film's three-hour running time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. There could comfortably be even more. Using such intricate optical effects as split screen, overlapping and double framing, Wadleigh has expanded and enriched the original musical performances...
Whether health care in the U.S. is an organized system or a haphazard numbers game, there is no doubt whatever that it is racially biased. For most whites, medical attention is only a phone call or a car ride away. By contrast, says the nation's top health officer, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, "it is the black Americans and other minorities for whom the 'system' works least well." Among blacks, the poor are a majority, and for them inadequate health care...
...integrate those portions of the film concerning Jake's inner problems with those parts that deal with his relations with other people as successfully as Barth was able to do in the novel. Deviation from a tightly woven novel is permissible, but in End of the Road, the few haphazard changes that have been made render a great deal of the movie's action superfluous. Characters and events that have significance in the novel are reproduced outside of their context as a mere gesture of faithfulness to the original work...
...charges against students were haphazard: several students testified that they had been present at the demonstrations but were not charged: others had been charged for one occupation when they had participated in both. "Harvard is being very selective." Griffin said. "By aiming at the most prominent. they think they can squelch the movement...