Word: unevennesses
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Sign & Site. NHS's biggest failure has been in not building enough new hospitals. Most of those it inherited were built before 1900. Many lack central heating and use sooty, coal-burning fireplaces to give a grudging, uneven heat. Some have no elevators, or plumbing is so scarce that nurses and male patients queue up for the same toilets. Except for wartime "temporary" units, Britain had not opened a single new hospital in 19 years until 1958. has opened only eleven since then. Outside a Midlands city stands a fading 1938 sign, "Site for new maternity hospital...
...narration is introduced by a stilted device: the narrator is the guardian angel (or conscience) of the woman, and he chats with her like a second-rate Whitman. The woman herself, Barbara Boxley, is a good actress, but her role is so uneven and inconsistent that she cannot make much...
...must be obvious that this is an uneven play. Director David Lelyveld has exploited the excitement of his situation to the utmost but too often he succumbs to touches of purest melodrama. The basic cause of unevenness, though, is Gardner himself, who is by turns eloquent, windy, perceptive, funny, pathetic, cynical, and utopian...
...generalize too effectively about this book, for it is too various, too uneven. Freeman apparently gave his publisher poems from an earlier period, poems that are not slick at all, but quite callow. Witness: "Who can train/the weathervane/ or tell the wind/to wax or want?" (from Acrisius...
...collection on sale belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe Juviler of New York and Palm Beach, who explained that they wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer...