Word: slapdash
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...instead of this one. Clearly he’s not trying for the peaks of “Reflection Eternal” or “Black Star”; “Right About Now” isn’t even a cohesive artistic statement, just a slapdash showcase for his rhyming skill and underground contacts. Were it not for those classics, Kweli would probably be only vaguely remembered as a fence-straddling quasi-backpacker...
...around, the duo might have difficulty getting signed, let alone selling out arenas anytime soon. ALIVE AND AMPLIFIEDA recent show at TT the Bear’s in Central Square gave the band a chance to demonstrate their chops in a live setting, but the show’s slapdash nature only undermined this goal. An under-qualified friend filled in on drums, and a bassist from Berklee School of Music completed the line-up. But the temporary status of two of the players caused the quartet to come off as sloppy and under-rehearsed. Tellingly, the group?...
That's not a bad way to describe Cincinnati, Ohio, 1963, a teeming meditation on that much contested ground, the American Dream. A bedroom set greets us in a store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the upper half of the frame, which reports a reflection in the window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image...
...around, the filmmakers understood that these weren’t pieces of fine art, nor should they be, and at times acknowledged their slapdash nature, eliciting a great response from the crowd. In “Dead Weight,” the protagonist, who’s just run over a women and has dragged her bloody corpse into his house, tries to get his roommate’s attention by screaming, “Does it look like I have fucking ketchup on my shirt...
...some court watchers, Brennan's latter-day accomplishments outshine his early years and will mark him in history as one of the high bench's great dissenters. While a member of the Warren court majority, he was guilty of writing some "slapdash" opinions, says Stanford's Gunther. "To my taste Brennan has been a hell of a lot better since he's had to articulate his views in dissent." In those opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice...