Word: slipshod
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...when the storyteller is Jorge Amado, it is well to take another swallow and settle back for an epic journey into passion, music, gambling, a bit of fighting and all manner of discursive side trips; Amado holds that there is "nothing worse than telling a story hurry-scurry, slipshod, without carefully analyzing everything...
...places, and forms of transport other than motor vehicles, where the great majority of nonfatal accidents occur. Moreover, says the Council (an offshoot of the National Academy of Sciences), the care that an accident victim can expect in most U.S. cities is too often inadequate. Ambulance service is frequently slipshod, with untrained personnel causing more injuries and deaths by careening through traffic lights, sirens shrieking, than they would if they took it a little easier...
...books stand out for their provocative attacks. Inquest, by Edward Jay Epstein, is a slight (151 pages) text that began as Epstein's master's thesis in government at Cornell University; it accuses the commission, of hurrying through the investigation in slipshod fashion, because it wanted to establish a "version of the truth" that would "reassure the nation and protect the national interest." Rush to Judgment, now a bestseller, is by New York Attorney Mark Lane, who was retained as counsel for a time by Oswald's mother. Lane's book consists of a minutely detailed...
...career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show theatricals just for the hell of it. Together, the two co-stars perform miracles of wit, charm and camera-wise witchery in this jaunty but slipshod farce written and directed by France's Louis Malle...
Only Richard Rhodes's article, "100 Years of Murder in Vietnam," stands out from this generally slipshod journalism, as a well reasoned attack on American policy in Vietnam. He presents a thoroughly documented historical account of our intervention in that country, and dramatizes the burden of guilt we must bear for our actions there. Even those readers who find his commentary a little too radical for their sensitive political palates will find that, like I.F. Stone, Rhodes has done his homework and has come up with astonishing quotations from the pages of the New York Times, the Congressional Record...