Word: unkempt
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...from being a successful PM. He bears grudges; collegiality is not his strong suit; though less so now that he is married with a child, he sometimes seems to carry around an existential angst, as if a dirty, gray, west-of-Scotland sky was permanently moored above his unkempt locks. He does not make people feel comfortable. He does not have - as, even after Iraq, Tony Blair still does - the capacity to convince the solid, middle-class folk of southern England that he is one of them. He is, finally, more policy wonk than politician. Time after time...
...Kerry and Edwards and Moore - two smooth polls and a rumpled polemicist - are unlikely bedfellows anyway. But politics has always created alliances of convenience; for now the three share a goal. And they have more in common than is evident at first glance; Moore plays the outsider, unkempt and loud, but he does share two things with Edwards: blue-collar roots and an unapologetically populist stance. Moore's radical sarcasm differs from Edwards' sunny, Clintonian bonhomie, but both are effective. Moore's bold, baldly manipulative film was already the biggest-grossing documentary ever in the U.S. when it began rolling...
...more years, couples may go on dates to get matching manicures, or shop together for the perfect foot cream. Or maybe men will revert to the 70s and abandon their gel for long, unkempt locks...
...tall man with stylishly unkempt hair and no beard who wore Western clothes, Zougam hardly looked like an Islamic fundamentalist. He did not appear religious. In Lavapies, a Madrid melting pot of North African, Chinese and Indian immigrants, Zougam ran a locutorio, one of the popular shops where you can make cheap phone calls abroad. The owner of another locutorio says Zougam was an expert in "liberating" phones--altering handsets sold cheaply by service providers to take prepaid SIM, or internal identity, cards. Among Zougam's customers was Yarkas. According to the November 2001 indictment against Yarkas, police tapping...
...humans aren't aquatic. Most of us, in fact, wish the world were dryer, not wetter, and flooding tops the list of human grievances against the beaver. By raising water levels, its unkempt but admirably watertight dams can flood basements, swamp sewer systems, spoil trout streams and even derail trains...