Word: makeshift
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MUSICALLY, TOO, it's the off-stage performances that are the best. Browne and Frey do a delightfully drugged-out version of Rev. Gary Davis's "Cocaine," recorded at a Holiday Inn in Edwardsville, Illinois; and Russ Kunkel stars on a makeshift drum kit on "Nothing But Time," a funky traveling song done on the band's Continental Silver Eagle bus "somewhere in New Jersey," the liner notes tell...
Finally, reports have filtered back from Hanover that some members of the ski teams have successfully run the line of "smokeys" blocking the route between Harvard and Dartmouth, so a makeshift team will compete at the Winter Carnival...
...also U.S. jets left over from the days (before May 1977) when the Addis Ababa regime was a U.S. friend. According to Western eyewitnesses, Soviet warships have been lobbing shells into the city. Most of Massawa's civilians have fled to the nearby hills, where they live in makeshift shelters, in desperate need of food and medical supplies...
...terribly easy thing to do," says Hugh Shanahan, a federal Drug Enforcement Agency official in Los Angeles. "It requires no sophisticated equipment. Even someone without a chemistry background can do it." Thus PCP is churned out in hundreds, possibly thousands of makeshift labs around the country, often in remote areas, where there is less chance that its telltale ether odor will be detected...
...gets married (which does not necessarily mean copping out if the man is as colorless and undefined as this doctor is). When the film ends it is 1976 and Pomme and Suzanne are together again, completely fulfilled by their extended families, guitars and old photographs. Varda concludes her makeshift friendship by telling us, "They were alike; they had fought to gain the happiness of being a woman...