Word: slapdash
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Willing Writer. Allen's spoken words often have a slapdash, off-the-cuff quality-most outrageously displayed in his film What's Up, Tiger Lily, a Japanese melodrama bearing Woody's hilarious non-sequitur dubbing. Yet his written prose displays the tongue-and-groove perfectionism of a genuine craftsman. "Allen is a marvel of a willing and hard-working writer," says Roger Angell, fiction editor of The New Yorker. "The first things he submitted to us were funny, but not really written; one heard a stand-up comic -good jokes, but just jokes. Allen has made himself...
...spend hours and days in open debate on the issues and what should be done. Presumably a White House staff of sorts would take form under this regime, and methods of operation could be tested and perfected. In previous Administrations the pressure of time has led to a slapdash throwing together of programs in the confusion of transition, or to long delays in getting to real programs. A new Administration with an added three months of fruitful work would be way ahead of the game...
After turning the last page, one feels that there are still more divorce papers and more lovers in Diana's future, and that she will never scale down her demands. Her story is told in rather slapdash fashion: the children, for instance, seem like shadowy refugees from an earlier draft. The tone shifts too suddenly and too often-from comedy to com- plaint to rather fancy lyricism. Nonetheless, the author, a poet with four volumes of graceful, glib verse to her credit, has written a heroine who is sturdier and funnier than she perhaps intended. Diana is a girl...
...himself together, so much so that each victim goes away with an autographed copy of his complete works. In the meantime, their testimony has accounted for pages and pages of excruciatingly detailed descriptions of sexual organs and agony. In reality it is the documentation of an atrocity, but in slapdash fiction it is only sadomasochism. Which is a popular theme in popular novels these days...
CONSUMER ACTION: Consumers could help themselves?and society?by complaining more about shoddy goods and slapdash service. When it comes to complaining, most Americans are really members of the Silent Majority. Ari Kiev, head of Cornell Medical College's social psychiatry program, figures that the atmosphere of the faceless society conditions customers to put up with inefficiency. Many Americans, he says, "have been trained from early on that nothing can be done. So much is made of rules and regulations, of the idea that 'you had better check it out first.' We become very dependent on others to give...