Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network of black churches. But that plan was opposed by the Rev. T.J. Jemison, leader of the powerful National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., who opposes mixing politics and religion. So Jackson's fledgling advisory committee has been reduced to sending out 2,000 solicitation letters, using a slapdash mailing list of friends and black businessmen, to raise seed money. Consequently, prominent politicians like Philadelphia Congressman William Gray are urging him to scale back his quest and run a Limited campaign in a few Southern states with a large proportion of black voters...
...defects that mar Fool for Love -slapdash structuring, spongy logic -are not unique to Sam Shepard, now nearing 40, but weaken the works of oft-called "promising" U.S. playwrights in the same generation. To transform experience into consciousness is what differ entiates art from reportage. It is not enough to leave a theater knowing what we have seen. We ought to leave it knowing more than we knew. Shepard does not really provide that illumination, nor do Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Albert Innaurato, David Rabe, Thomas Babe, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Christopher Durang...
...series will bear little resemblance to the gray, grainy, slapdash shows that made Child a kitchen word: no more dropped eggs, lumps in the sauce or uncarvable suckling pigs. Dinner has a slick new format, a grant of about $1 million from Polaroid, one of her previous underwriters, and, of course, mouth-watering color. Instead of concentrating on the making of a single dish, each 30-minute segment will include the preparation of a dinner for ten, an interview with a master chef and a winemaker, a "gathering" sequence in which Julia seeks out her raw materials at their source...
...given off by a distant planetary civilization orbiting a remote star. Indeed, even diehards like Sagan are forced to concede that there is not a scintilla of hard scientific evidence that life of any kind exists on far-off worlds. But the search efforts so far have admittedly been slapdash, concentrating on only small parts of the sky and tuning in to just a few of the vast range of radio frequencies that might be used for transmissions. Horowitz, who caught the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) bug after Cornell's Sagan lectured on the subject at Harvard, decided...
...Mick Jagger is like an aging but still energetic courtesan: he gives pleasure so expertly it hardly matters that his heart and guts may not be in his work. Hal Ashby's slapdash film record of the Rolling Stones' 1981 U.S. tour reveals the old showman parading his tricks with skill and snazz. Against a pointillist backdrop of thousands of shirts and faces, Jagger skip-sprints across the huge stage, towels off his crotch with his jacket, executes arabesques and aerobics, drapes himself in chiffon or Stars and Stripes or next to nothing. He sings too, though...