Word: makeshifts
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...well into the 21st century, yet roughly half the world's people live in makeshift homes in squatter settlements and work in shadow economies. In many countries, more than 80% of all homes and businesses are unregistered; in the Philippines, the figure is 65% and in Tanzania, 90%. More than one-third of the developing world's GDP is generated in the underground economy, a figure that has increased steadily over the past decade...
...that Roger co-wrote in his 20s. As the go-to movie savant, he's been on hundreds of TV shows, sometimes alone, sometimes with his review-show partners; who can forget that night in the '80s when David Letterman persuaded Roger and Gene to toss basketballs at a makeshift hoop? And there've been countless speaking engagements, most of them to proselytize for the art and pleasure of movies. At some of these events he leads an in-depth discussion of some classic film - Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Third Man and most recently In Cold Blood - stopping the action...
...famous as one of the YBAs: Young British Artists with shock appeal. Another is a series of middling monoprints with debts to Paul Klee and Egon Schiele. There are also some larger paintings and embroidered canvases. The best work is four wooden sculptures made from sticks attached to form makeshift towers, totems of ramshackle desire. The worst? That's easy - the wall that displays a maudlin text in scrawled neon handwriting: You put your hand across my mouth But still the noise continues Every part of my body is screaming Smashed into a thousand million pieces Each part For ever...
...Undergraduate Council office of today has a similarly makeshift feel...
...arrival. Even 14 hours in, the speeches were going strong - testament to the lawyers' oratorical endurance. In between speeches, music blasted from the sound system. The most popular, a new tune written for the occasion, was a catchy Punjabi pop song whose refrain echoed through the makeshift stadium: "Hey man, take off your uniform. Your job is done now, time to go home." The opening notes launched a conga line of black-suited lawyers through the aisles. It was like something that would be seen at an American lawyers' convention, two hours after the start of the open...