Word: shapelessness
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...England. But when a lady has been queen of the headlines for so long, no place can really be a castle. London newsmen trailed Jackie to Lee's 49-acre estate, where a photographer snapped her standing alongside Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, bundled against the chill in a shapeless and unbecoming brown beret, blue jacket and grey trousers. And one woman's page writer waspishly suggested that in future Jackie reserve such headgear for her bath. Back in New York, Jackie passed the word that she wanted to be left strictly alone: it was the fifth anniversary of Jack...
...everyone in the caravans of refugees was dressed in the bright shirts and shapeless dresses of the poorer Africans. Ibos had been the mandarins of the government, the army, the professions. They had run many of Nigeria's hospitals, done much of its engineering, presided over vast commercial empires ?and their sudden, simultaneous uprooting deprived the rest of Nigeria of its elite. What is more, like the message of jungle drums that is understood only by the initiated, the imperative summons mysteriously reached those Ibos comfortably ensconced abroad?medical specialists in London, university professors in the U.S., students...
...private cocktail and dinner parties report that, while the first encounter is a head-snapper, repeated exposure dulls the senses. After a few summers of bareness, the most enticing woman a few seasons hence may well turn out to be the one cloaked head to foot in a shapeless North African djellaba...
...whole act of modernization just that: an act. It seems that way, at times like the sous-prefet's party or times when a traveler is randomly rounded up by the police. Then Adzope appears shapeless, with its bits and pieces acting out their meaningless Western jobs under no particular plan...
...take six dresses into a fitting room, emerge wearing all of them, one over the other, and march right out of the store. Others employ such traditional equipment as the "booster box"-a gift-wrapped package with a spring-loaded trap opening-or the "Harpo Marx" coat, a shapeless, voluminous outer garment that, inside, is a marvel of deep pockets and handy hooks...