Word: unkempt
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...communal group's lifestyle soon brought objections from neighbors. Members refuse to bathe with soap, and many wear their hair in unkempt dreadlocks. They "recycle" their refuse by dumping it in the yard, a practice that attracts hordes of rats. MOVE mothers give birth naturally, biting off their babies' umbilical cords. Their children do not attend school and usually go naked-even in winter. Members also reject burial; at one point they showed reporters the shriveled corpse of a month-old baby who had died from undisclosed causes...
According to an FBI internal memo released last week, Presley showed up at FBI headquarters when he visited Washington in 1970 and offered his services. Elvis, according to Research Chief M.A. Jones, who spoke with him, was peeved at the Beatles for their "filthy, unkempt appearance and suggestive music." Jones further quoted him as saying that "the Smothers Brothers, Jane Fonda and other persons in the entertainment industry of their ilk have a lot to answer for in the hereafter for the way they have poisoned young minds by disparaging the United States in public statements and unsavory activities...
...Bashford, San Francisco's priciest men's store, ran full-page ads featuring a man whose linen suit looked as if it had escaped from a disaster movie, it was a sellout. Italy's Giorgio Armani is generally acknowledged to be the greatest evangelist of male unkempt. A disarming, blue-eyed Milanese, Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura...
...creatures are so amiable. Goblins, those foot-high fiends of the forest, and house ghosts are obnoxious and troublesome. But the real threat to gnomes comes from the troll--a disgusting, hairy and unkempt Northern European dolt who gets his jollies by keeping his gnomes to the grindstones and by lighting a gnome on fire and then playing hot potato with him. Gnomes are for whom the troll yells, so to speak...
...Pilate is free. She was odd from birth--she never had the choice of conforming, because she has no navel, no connection to even family. She is eccentric, living outside respectability with her daughter and her daughter's daughter, off the proceeds of her homemade wine. Pilate, in her unkempt and mystical way, is not bound by the conventions that trap ordinary people, so that she has less distance to travel to freedom than the rest of her family. She alone is fertile, loving; she alone will fight to protect her children or repeatedly, to save her nephew. Crazy, gypsy...