Word: unkempt
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Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...
...must all follow their example, and so John G. Wofford said last night, "Stand firmly upon our ideals, as we slaughter the unkempt creatures...
When undergraduates returned to their houses a few day ago they had no reason to expect "welcome home" signs, but they had every reason to expect their rooms to be in a livable condition. Now livable, for the average student who passes the academic year in a rather unkempt condition, does not mean gleaming sinks, glowing floors, and shiny new paint. All that is demanded is a clean sink, a usable shower or tub, and a comparatively dust-free bedroom. This is not demanding too much. But the returning undergraduate found it all too easy to carve his initials...
...movie location in Spain, Italy's voluptuous Cinemactress Sophia Loren, unkempt and grimy, looked more appealing as a child of the earth than in more familiar rig as a child of luxury. While the cameras whirred, Sophia, in the role of a hell-for-dirt girl guerrilla, had just helped a motley band of actors drag a 3-ton artillery piece through rain and a morass of real...
...evening wore on, it grew clear to all that the unkempt man, Earl Kemp Long, had been elected for four years as governor of the great state of Louisiana. Since Earl Long was the younger brother of the late Huey Pierce Long (d. 1935), it was only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft...