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...best comedic turn is by Chris Farley as Ronnie, the honobsessed (oversexed) beau of Connie. In a movie about prissy, controlled aliens with symmetrical cones on their heads, Farley is perfectly unkempt and asymmetrical. He almost steals the film...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: One-Joke Celluloid Presentation Amusing | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...short, thin man carrying a cardboard box of uncooked buns races away from East Broadway in Manhattan's Chinatown. His unkempt black hair flies wildly as he darts onto Henry Street, then turns, looking anxiously behind him. When he sees a policeman continue up the street, he drops the box and takes a deep breath. The cop, he explains, was after the uncooked buns. The man sells nine for $2, making on average $15 a day. He doesn't have a license to sell on the street. He does not know what a license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Promised Land? | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...still darkness outside the compound, a handful of women and children shelter for the night beneath a stunted shade tree. They will be the first in line tomorrow. Others have made their way back to roofless, unkempt huts, abandoned during the fighting here, to wait out the long hours until another feeding day begins. Says UNICEF's Dr. Yeron: "I have been in the refugee camps during the Ethiopian famine, and I have never seen such a catastrophe as we have in Somalia." Still, he says, since dry rations became available here two weeks ago, the situation has improved. "Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Day in the Death of Somalia | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...SERB MILITIAMEN FROM BOSNIA lounged on deck chairs and sofas on the unkempt lawn of what was a Muslim home in Kozarac. The former owners had been swept out at the end of May. Now, rifles at their feet, the fighters smoked cigarettes as they leafed through comics and pornographic magazines. Dragan Zamaklaar, 22, in jeans and cowboy boots, dragged heavily on a Marlboro. Then he began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleansed Wound | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...unkempt: the mental state of conservative Republicans frustrated over their ticket

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word Watch: Aug 3, 1992 | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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