Word: slapdash
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...hard way-by withstanding a half-botched production. Despite rather limp staging and several performers who seemed in the wrong roles or even in the wrong profession, Hecht's and MacArthur's rowdy salute to their Chicago newspaper days has brash, improbable life and gaudy, slapdash color...
Cellini's art had been well-tailored for a discerning market and highly polished enough to reflect the spirit of the Renaissance. Dali's purely subjective and surprisingly slapdash illustrations...
Last week, at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, his home town got a look at 64 deftly slapdash Dong watercolors. One standout was a gay gull's-eye view of San Francisco's war-crowded harbor (see cut). To get a proper perch to paint it from, Dong pitched a pup tent dizzily atop the Bay Bridge. It was a long way up from the narrow obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown, where he began...
...want him to go-now-before he discredits us further, for his own sake as well as ours. . . . The matter is urgent. . . . There can be no doubt of the feelings of the common people of England . . . about this ugly business in Greece and other countries under the heel of slapdash British Toryism. ... If we do not end Winston, Winston will...
...bright idea for semirealistic comedy that could be human and likable as well as ludicrous, Snafu bounces instead into slapdash farce. Character is crushed and credibility outraged in a hurly-burly of ringing phones, trussed-up detectives, sud den disappearances and mistaken identity. Nor is there enough merriment in such madness. Some of Snafu's gags are funny and one or two of its scenes are fun; but too much of it is rambling, rickety and pretty desperately contrived...