Word: unkempt
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...accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other patients in the group have cut their sleep time to eight hours, she says, "a light goes on." The technique has also worked to convince an unkempt patient of the need for regular showers...
...such a happily unkempt man -- he wore shoulder-length hair and bargain- basement clothes, and weighed an eighth of a ton -- Gaines' death last week seemed curiously neat: he had turned 70; his creation was turning 40; an exhaustive coffee-table-book history (Completely Mad) was in the bookstores; and, as if to reaffirm Mad's relevance, the current issues of two other magazines (Esquire and Texas Monthly) feature Alfred E. Neumanesque cover caricatures of would-be Presidents (George Bush and Ross Perot). Is there any American under 50 who did not as a youth experience Mad's liberating, irreverent...
Winer is a self-appointed member of the Square's cafe culture--a sort of underground society that frequents the crowded hangouts where hermits cuddle in the corner with Hume, where chess masters with unkempt beards wage war for a dollar, where Jimi Hendrix impersonators make the cappuccino quiver with their electric guitars...
According to an affidavit released last week by a former accountant to boxing promoter Don King, the King of Unkempt may have fleeced client Tyson of millions of dollars in winnings over a five-year period through overcharges and improper spending. The affidavit, filed in connection with a lawsuit between Tyson and his former manager, Bill Cayton, alleges that King charged Tyson $750,000 for "overhead" at the promoter's New York office, $100,000 in "consulting fees" for his wife, $2 million for him to acquire promotional rights to other fighters, as well as extravagant sums to cover travel...
...mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because of Mills, who agonizes beautifully, down to her last unkempt strand of hair...