Word: unkempt
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...around. "Out of sight, out of mind." I think we realize at the same time that we're not talking about my getting on the wrong bus. We're talking about the bus and its scarred passengers and the sweep of ugly yellow institutional buildings bordered by weeds and unkempt hedges and the fact that the bus we're on doesn't even go anywhere, just there and back, there and back, a closed loop. We're talking about people who get lost and wash up on Wards Island and people who are used to not looking and the question...
Earlier this week, I was part of the 6 p.m. rush to get home. An unkempt man was trying to make conversation with a fashionable woman decked out in a Chanel-style jacket and tailored pants. "You look about fourteen," he said to the obviously forty-something woman. "Do you know that if you were a dog, you would be two?" The woman let out a nervous peal of laughter, uncertain whether the conversion from human to dog years was a blatant attempt to impress her or the tangential musings of a madman. At the sound of her voice, three...
...almost-Seinfeld without the defining dark snap or subtext, Ellen has always centered on DeGeneres and a coterie of grating, too-unkempt-for-their-age pals and hangers-on, but the cast and creative team have undergone major overhauls since the show's beginnings. The current characters have little chemistry and seem like odd, unfathomable choices to support DeGeneres. Why Ellen, a neurotic but sensible woman in her late 30s, rooms with her temperamental frat-boyish cousin Spence (Jeremy Piven) in her Los Angeles apartment is anyone's guess...
...center's bright yellow banisters and red framed windows contrast with some of the unkempt homes in Area Four. The center's facilities include a computer room, kitchen, indoor gym, game room, study room and outdoor basketball courts...
Kaczynski's former suitemate describes the suspected Unabomber's living habits as unkempt and disorderly. "He had a god-awful messy room," says McIntosh. "When he wadded up paper, he would toss it towards a corner. I think we finally may have asked Ted to clean up his room...