Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this bathroom wall style. Subtitled "A Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog," it is put out by POINT, some sort of non-profit subsidiary of Portola Institute, the wonderful people who brought you The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Epilog, and numerous other updates. The Quarterly shares the slapdash grafitti layout that made The Catalog great bedtime reading, interspersed with long articles on topics like saddles and trappings, space colonies, and what's left of the New Left. There are also interviews with at least nominally interesting people like Marlon Brando and astronaut Russell Schweickart...
...Every where one turns in this show, pleasure is celebrated: the tricolores and red, white and blue parasols in Raoul Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images of that coast have been marked by Matisse's agaves and olives, his lion-colored headlands and glimpses...
Ronald Reagan had decided that it was time to switch from conservative generalities to a more specific blueprint for drastically reducing Big Government. And so, after three weeks of slapdash staff work, he proposed on Sept. 26 "a single bold stroke" that would abolish the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid, air-traffic control, postal subsidies and some other services...
...never sleeps," perhaps as much for his insomnia as his administrative zeal. At his office in the São Bento Palace, he drives his staff relentlessly and has a reputation for exploding in anger when dissatisfied with its work -although he is regarded as a somewhat slapdash executive himself. Devoted to his family (two children), Gonçalves relaxes by swimming at the deserted, rocky Guincho Beach on the Atlantic coast, where he owns a simple cottage. Gonçalves often chooses an area of giant waves and a powerful undertow; characteristically, he seems to welcome the danger...
...Portugal's President, General Francisco da Costa Gomes, called the agreement "a realistic solution to the respective interests of [Angola's] people." Less sanguine observers, however, fear that the domestic peace will be fragile and temporary at best. To many in Angola, it smacks of the same slapdash arrangements the Belgians made before handing the Congo over to bloody civil war in 1960. The majority think it is little more than an improvised device to get rid of Angola with meaningless lip service to safeguards for whites...