Word: slipshod
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...True, there is James Wolcott's ghastly hype-hop prose: ' "Going to Extremes" . . . mentholates the senses like a Club Med ad.' Plus some slipshod editing: two Dan Quayle 'potatoe' jokes. But broken columns, boxed poems and spots of color and photographs enhance rather than vulgarize. Pieces are shorter than before but cut deeper -- especially 'News from Hell,' concerning the events in Sarajevo by new contributor Anna Husarska. Yet tradition has not been entirely scrapped: see Roger Angell's valedictory to Fay Vincent, recently decapitated commissioner of baseball. Miraculously, after a long arid spell the cartoons are funny again -- particularly those...
These textual complaints might seem petty, but they are indicative of the overall sloppiness which taints A Voice of One's Own. The book is a chatty, slipshod survey of contemporary writing women, and its academic claims are bankrupt. Failed promise makes A Voice of One's Own absolutely infuriating. Pearlman and Henderson spent precious time talking with these accomplished women and produced mostly...
...danger is not from the doctor but from slipshod practices, says Jack Rosenberg, a Manhattan dentist and founder of a gay and lesbian dental guild. "Asking your dentist whether or not he is gay is not going to protect you," Rosenberg says. "Instead, you should ask, 'Do you sterilize your instruments? Do you follow standard infection control?' Those are the questions that will protect you." Rosenberg caused a ruckus last week when he publicly declared that he knew several dentists who are HIV-positive and that he advises them not to tell their patients...
Lack of Readiness. Over the past three years, the government's General Accounting Office has issued several reports about slipshod training and severe shortages of equipment in Guard units around the country. Among the items listed in the GAO's February 1991 study: during a training exercise, one unit had only 40% of the chemical-warfare equipment it needed; a helicopter battalion was unable to practice because it was given only two usable antitank missiles for live-fire exercises; and an infantry battalion received only 19 of the 60 TOW missiles it had requested. All too often, the GAO reported...
Lamft had come to the meeting at the request of the council to discuss ongoing problems with the postal service, which has drawn frequent complaints during the past year for slipshod mail delivery...