Word: unkempt
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When John D. Rockefeller Jr. visited Williamsburg, Va., in 1926, it had all the charm of an unkempt graveyard. Block after block of ramshackle, weather-leached houses seemed to lean into each other for support. Rockefeller threw his formidable support into founding and nurturing Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., a richly endowed corporation that transformed the city's old section into a tourist attraction by painstakingly restoring its splendor as Virginia's former capital. Ever since, Colonial Williamsburg has been successfully transforming history into a lively happening...
...rheumy eyes of a bloodhound, the jowls of a St. Bernard and a baldachin of white hair like that of an extraordinarily unkempt poodle. His face, reporters joked, looked as if it had been slept in. When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog. His performances had a consciously archaic quality about them. He satirized fustian while indulging in it. His senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened...
...came in a white suit and a yellow open-necked shirt, altogether a more relaxed and assured-looking figure than the leather-jacketed, unkempt Dylan of old. The hair, once long and wild, was now relatively short. A wispy mustache and thin beard had been added. When he came on, he was greeted by applause that sounded like the roar of surf from the nearby Channel...
...rational and constructive protest. In the September issue of the British magazine Encounter, Bettelheim spells out his ideas, which have been raising controversy at academic conferences and press conferences for the past six months. Among them: > "When I see some of these students -'unwashed' and 'unkempt'-I cannot help thinking: There goes another youngster who, as an infant, was practically scrubbed out of existence by his parents in the name of good hygiene and loving care." > "In most of the small group of leaders of the radical left, intellect was developed at much too early...
DEAR WORLD. Plays converted into musicals have a high disaster ratio, and this one, from Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, is no exception. Angela Lansbury, looking like a ruefully unkempt Colette, is excellent as the madwoman, but the Jerry Herman score is disappointing and Joe Layton's choreography is mediocre...