Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago the modern-minded jury considered 171 candidates, whose styles ranged from meticulous realism to slapdash expressionism, then placed its stamp of approval firmly on New York's avantgarde. The winners, chosen by Museum of Modern Art Collections Curator Dorothy C. Miller. Chicago-born Painter Arthur Osver and Manhattan Sculptor-Welder Theodore Roszak...
Turning a sophisticated comic strip of a novel into an even broader but somewhat less vulgar play, the adapters-with wonderful help from Designer Oliver Smith-have hit on a kind of scene-a-minute technique. Their slapdash method, though highly uncreative, is not entirely illadvised. Thanks to Morton DaCosta's lively staging, it makes speed a kind of substitute for wit, and puts pedestrian writing on horseback. Its quick-changes also consort well with Auntie Mame's scatterbrained nature, besides providing a fine succession of new costumes, new hairdos, new wall treatments, new gaffes, new predicaments...
...Chicago court threw out the will on the ground that fear-ridden Thorne was not legally competent when he made it. The court-approved settlement of his estate: $350,000 to the Ragens, the balance to Thome's mother. Still a mystery, heightened by bungling police work and slapdash coroner's methods: What-possibly who-killed Monty Thorne...
...settings bare and shabby as they may be, are actually quite suitable to the situation of the drama, and the same sort of remark about the costumes can be excused in the same manner. Nevertheless, the staging seems at least to suffer from the same element of slapdash that injures the whole...
When New York Mirror Editor Jack Lait and his Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer brought out their untidy, slapdash book, U.S.A. Confidential, they quickly became targets of half a dozen libel suits (TIME, May 19, 1952), based on the character assassination that helped make the book a bestseller. Biggest and most important was brought by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus store, which sued for $7,400,000 because Lait and Mortimer had written: "Some Neiman models are call girls . . . and the Dallas fairy colony is composed of many Neiman dress and millinery designers." Crown Publishers Inc., which published U.S.A. Confidential, promptly decided...