Word: tatterdemalion
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...Star Trek: The Next Generation. In a performance he first offered to much acclaim last summer in Central Park, Stewart gives us a down-at-heels (barefoot, actually) aristocrat of lithe movements and piercing, narrow-eyed glances. Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf...
...Ribera's more complex figure arrangements, one seems to be looking at a mechanism of limbs and torsos that have suddenly frozen in mid- action. The models are muscular and, when old, stringy. One is left in no doubt that Ribera found them on the street, in their patched, tatterdemalion clothes, and got them into the studio for a few coppers. In his early Roman allegories of the five senses, The Sense of Smell is a beggar holding up not the flower that was usual in versions of this common subject, but a cut onion, so that tears trickle from...
Jubilant and eclectic, yet a little ragged with the tatterdemalion feel of a county fair, Viet Nam's show of national pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet...
...games and lost 108. They were the tatterdemalion remains of Charlie Finley's once noble dynasty (World Series champions in 1972-74), and cheap enough to fit their owner's pinchpenny budget. The A's were not worth going to watch, and nobody did. The average attendance that year was 3,984. They were not even worth booing; when a player muffed a popup, the fans laughed instead...
...yesterday, the rain did not prevent that rite known as the first swing of spring from taking place as scheduled. Undaunted by the pelting rain and driven snow, Spence Fitzgibbons, one of the captains of the golf team, found a suitably muddy patch of turf and surrounded by a tatterdemalion group of caddies and onlookers proceeded to tee up his ball and waggle his driver in preparation...