Word: makeshift
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...feel this as an intensely personal thing. It's like having my passport stolen." When a California man was told at the exchange window of Rome's Fiumicino Airport that the dollar had collapsed, he did likewise and had to be taken to a hospital. Makeshift flea markets sprang up in London and Paris, where young Americans were selling guitars, cameras, tents, radios, motorcycles and even their return plane tickets...
There is some stunningly eerie footage of snowscapes and icebergs, but Mikhail Kalatozov directs his dramatic scenes in the overripe style of the worst pseudoepic Russian film making. The Red Tent (so titled for the makeshift shelter in which the survivors took refuge) at no time does justice to the drama of the subject. Finch and his crew are continually threatened by starvation and frostbite, but sheer boredom somehow seems a more likely fate...
...about the countryside without food and shelter. Near the border, some have taken over schools to sleep in; others stay with villagers or sleep out in the fields and under the trees. Most are shepherded into refugee camps where they are given ration cards for food and housed in makeshift sheds of bamboo covered with thatched or plastic roofing. Though no one is actually starving in the camps, food is in short supply, particularly powdered milk and baby food...
...watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were a yard too wide, of volleying on a blocked-off street in downtown St. Louis to let people know "that we were alive and playing," and of the art of lobbing shots through the rafters of bandbox arenas. Those were the "gypsy days," he says, when "we dressed in our cars...
...persuaded an officer to marry them. After they were captured by the Russians, Hilde escaped at the insistence of her "husband" (he survived, but she never saw him again) and arrived in Berlin just in time to assist at the rebirth of the German theater. The costumes were so makeshift they fell off on the stage, the actors so ill the director had to call an intermission for vomiting. Hilde then starred in The Murderers Are Among Us, Germany's first postwar film, and the same recklessness that had hurled her at the Russians propelled her across...