Word: unkempt
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...hoped for. Doing as much as Modest Mouse and others to blur the lines between what is respectably indie and guiltily radio-friendly, Daniel and company are helping to usher in a new era that will hopefully win back the radio from cookie cutter hip hop. Maybe the artfully unkempt throng of Spoonophiles is on to something; no one can deny creativity this infectiously accessible forever. —Staff writer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu...
What the video lacks in professionalism, it more than compensates for in down-home charm: Mrs. Berman puts on like a young June Carter Cash (down to her signature sun dress and teased tresses), a couple of unkempt friends play catch with the Bermans’ dog, and Dave hams it up with a wind-up Halloween prop...
...Northern intelligentsia was initially blind to Lincoln's writing ability for at least two reasons. First, there was the strong impression, reinforced by his unkempt appearance and awkward demeanor, that he was a rube. His obvious discomfort in formal clothes on ceremonial occasions and his constant fidgeting with his ill-fitting kid gloves did little to dispel those misgivings. Moreover, he insisted on entertaining sophisticated visitors by telling country stories in a broad hoosier accent. Wall Street lawyer George Templeton Strong wrote in his diary after their first meeting that the President was a "barbarian," a "yahoo." And Strong liked...
...took four years and 15 police reports before the youngest sister gave in and agreed that Kathleen should become their mother's guardian. Wittstock assumed guardianship in 2004. By that time, their mother was living alone and unkempt in her condo with no food in the house and the gas turned off. Now Mom is safely ensconced in an assisted-living home, and Wittstock is proud of what she accomplished with her sisters. "Our relationships are not always great," she says, "but we work...
...Michael E. Kopko ’07, necessity was the unkempt mother of invention. The student founder of DormAid, an on-campus cleaning service, says his nascent business rose from the dust of his own bad habits—Kopko, by his own admission, is not so neat...