Word: unkempt
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...gatherings, they first faced denial and even veiled threats of ostracism from some of the community's old guard. But the phenomenon could no longer be covered up after Oct. 2, 1999, when Florida officials working on a tip from neighbors removed a 12-year-old Haitian girl--filthy, unkempt and in acute abdominal pain from repeated rape--from the affluent suburban home of middle-class Haitian-American merchants Willy and Marie Pompee in Pembroke Pines. The girl, a restavek, said she had been forced to have sex with the Pompees' 20-year-old son Willy Jr. since...
...Replace with: Wonder Boys This movie has everything: Laugh-out-loud humor, snappy repartee and moments of devastating tenderness. Michael Douglas turns in what would have been, if anyone had seen it, a career-altering tour de force as a lovably unkempt English professor struggling to finish his second book. Tobey Maguire and Frances MacDormand also shine...
Make more coffee. Feel sorry for Zeta-Jones and her husband, Michael Douglas, who was overlooked for "Wonder Boys" despite his unkempt appearance in the film and wardrobe consisting largely of a gnarly bathrobe. It practically screamed "Serious Actor." Next time he should show some cleavage, which seems to be working for Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe...
...Kashmir?and the country's North-West Frontier province to the nice, middle-class houses in Lahore and Islamabad. Those houses may look no different from their neighbors at first glance, but what about the strange antennas on the roofs, the international phone lines and the transient occupants with unkempt hair, camouflage jackets and hiking boots? And what of those unmarked four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling up at dawn with clockwork precision? Here is an inside look at how Pakistan runs its covert war in Kashmir...
...protesters shared Hirschl's calm, measured speech. Racing back and forth between the protesters in the middle of the street and the many spectators who clogged sidewalks along the route, a man with a sprawling, unkempt beard and a banner tucked under his arm screamed in onlookers' faces...