Word: slipshodness
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...Medical procedures in nursing homes are slipshod. In many cases, the doctors supposedly responsible for individual patients are unavailable when needed. Doctors who actually visit the homes often exercise insufficient caution and supervision over drug prescriptions. In one example cited by Nader, a doctor who had been administering an experimental drug justified his action by producing a release signed with an "X"; the patient had been judged senile three years before...
Last spring Vermont enacted various progressive laws aimed primarily at the state's chief blight: slipshod real estate development (TIME, Sept. 26, 1969). In theory, the laws cure other ills as well. By mid-1971, for example, industries will be required to buy permits to pour effluents into rivers and streams; the fees are scaled to the amount of wastes discharged. Although the new rules seemed models for other states to follow, they have already disappointed almost everyone...
...error is unending. Emperor Hirohito is outmaneuvered by his military cadre; President Roosevelt is crossed off the confidential list because the generals distrust his advisers. Bureaucracy and blind tradition amplify each error beyond calculation. No single man can be blamed, and no villains or heroes emerge from this foundering, slipshod-and hypnotic-drama. That judgment must hold not only for those who lived it but also for those who filmed it. Three directors, one American (Richard Fleischer) and two Japanese, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, have managed to move crowds and planes, but not the viewer. They have shown events...
...Chips, a cuddly Teddy bear of a man who sees his boys as substitutes for the sons he never had. His antithesis is Malley (Fritz Weaver), a martinet of Greek and Latin, a forbidding aristocrat of learning waging a slightly paranoid struggle for excellence in an age of slipshod egalitarianism. With tongues as foils, this pair fences throughout the play, and the acting level is simply sustained perfection. The third teacher, Reese (Ken Howard), is a puzzled innocent, a gym teacher earnestly trying to isolate the virus of evil that seems to have infected the boys...
Voices is hardly entertainment, and certainly not a technician's delight. The camera work is slipshod, the editing choppy. But its bruising immediacy requires no cinematic ploys or emotional gambits. The patients' private odysseys through corridors of inner chaos are bleakly self-sustaining...