Word: slipshodness
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...could be called minimalist or slipshod, depending on your distance from theater lingo. There's a blue curtain backdrop that came Federal Express through the local time warp from an elementary school somewhere in your past; there's a yellow bench with paint drippings down the side; and there's the now-classic red doghouse spoiled by the addition of green pine trees on the side...
...BEGINNING of Legend, the king of the wood elves tells Jack, the forest boy (Tom Cruise): "You can't expect to disrupt the order of the universe and not pay the price." The "price" here refers to the rest of the movie, a slipshod amalgamation of trolls, witches, ugly bat-like things and one-eyed executioner types that belong in pro wrestling. Sad to say, Legend is too high a price for even the fantasy flick lover...
CURRENTLY PLAYING in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, Love, Sex and the IRS is as incongruous a play as its title suggests. It is both slipshod slapstick comedy and farfetched farce about two roommates, their girlfriends, their landlord, one of their mothers and an IRS agent...
...Jekyll-and-Hyde melange of personal charisma and calibrated bluster. He used stock phrases and body language to cajole applause from the 5,000 delegates, who first greeted his criticism of Soviet poor production practices with timid silence. The Pavlovian technique paid off. The second time he complained about slipshod work habits, he received an instant ovation. Jested Gorbachev: "Now I see I have twice won your applause by reminding you of the need for change." At the end of his speech, he glanced at his watch after a minute of applause. The cheers ceased abruptly...
...University's actions were slipshod. Moreover, Harvard officials have yet to acknowledge the inadequacy of the internship program as it currently stands. They have refused to meet with the authors of the report or to agree not to send interns to the programs it criticizes. These actions are a minimal first step; they should be taken immediately. Instead the University seems determined to continue the internship program on its present course despite clear inadequacies...