They're a shambolic rock outfit at a time when shambolic rock's at its least commercial.
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In Packer's shambolic renderings the painted eyes are not present.
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The judicial system in much of rebel-held Syria is shambolic.
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Mr. Corbyn himself came across as a shambolic and petulant grouch.
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Even by Brexit's shambolic standard, this week has been a doozy.
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His last, shambolic gig was at the city's Corn Exchange in 1972.
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The shambolic implementation of the GST is likely to make matters worse.
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Juno's most damning quality is trying too hard to appear charminlgly shambolic.
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Perversely, the shambolic version of the Rockets are more fun to watch.
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Sometimes her pile-on sentences achieve a prickly, shambolic sort of grace.
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Now, 11 weeks into Mr Trump's shambolic administration, the mood has lightened somewhat.
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Some of which are good, but most are either unreliable, shambolic, or dangerous.
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Even by the standards of a shambolic occupation, that was a disastrous mistake.
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What more can be said that hasn't already about the shambolic Chinese authorities?
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Most likely, he will enter the meeting grotesquely unprepared, with predictably shambolic results.
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For a few weeks, HQ's shambolic DIY vibe was part of its charm.
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The shambolic failure of attempts to deliver Brexit has given him another opening.
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Given Mr Trump's shambolic organisational skills, such a one-two punch seems highly unlikely.
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Mr Johnson's shambolic, showboating style is not just a way of getting his message across.
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DIANE JAMES'S time as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) was short and shambolic.
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The sound of shambolic shuffling echoes around the Liberty Stadium, Vicarage Road and Goodison Park.
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If democratic procedures start to seem shambolic, then democratic ideas will seem questionable as well.
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If he leaves, experts say it could make an already shambolic presidency even more chaotic.
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What better way to combine nostalgia with shambolic messes that just won't seem to die.
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The difference between suspicious and shambolic behavior often depends on who is doing the watching.
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He has set up operations at the White House as a shambolic exercise in terror.
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At one point, Norman meets his own double, in the shambolic person of Hank Azaria.
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The most polite words being used in Westminster to describe the reshuffle are "farcical" and "shambolic".
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Soon, our characters are off to Australia, on a shambolic road trip, hunting gods and gurus.
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Ask most UK sex workers and they'll tell you the current law is dangerous and shambolic.
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Is it possible to pursue an ideological revolution when your administration has such a shambolic style?
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But the past 18 months of shambolic government in Westminster has damaged Tory chances, fear party wallahs.
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But his shambolic, careening campaign is already alienating the general electorate like no other politician ever has.
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And one standout is this shambolic, punkish tribute to the band's place in a burgeoning grunge mecca.
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But Switzerland was the more methodical side, and did well to take advantage of shambolic Serbian defending.
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The U.S. approach to foreign policy at present could best be characterized as shambolic, to put it mildly.
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As a film, it was a shambolic melodrama that seemed to treat Ramdev almost as a divine messenger.
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Even Steve Doocy looked a little bemused during Trump's shambolic 54-minute call into "Fox & Friends" on Friday.
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That makes Labour's shambolic state doubly harmful, since the Conservatives' unchallenged position in Westminster makes Britain even less appealing.
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Americans, too, long ridiculed South Vietnam and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) as corrupt and shambolic.
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"It is just a shambolic joke now - every time you put telly on there is inhouse fighting," Green said.
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With all the talk these days surrounding FIFA's comically corrupt officials, often overlooked is its equally shambolic ranking system.
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But his sometimes shambolic personal appearance and disarmingly self-deprecating confidence allowed him to survive both gaffes and scandal.
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Scottish policing was shambolic before the merger, says Niven Rennie, an ex-head of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents.
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They came out of the closet there is no journalism on the mainstream media left and it was absolutely shambolic.
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But his sometimes shambolic personal appearance and disarmingly self-deprecating confidence have allowed him to survive both gaffes and scandal.
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The shambolic secondhand-record store, founded by the D.J. and Hong Kong native Man Hon Luk, is all about recycling.
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However, he did severely criticise Tunisian security forces saying that their response had been "at best shambolic, and at worst cowardly".
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In spite of several shambolic results at the start of his tenure, deserves huge credit for turning Northern Ireland's fortunes around.
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" A spokesman, Obert Gutu, was quoted in The Guardian as saying: "The Zimbabwe health delivery system is in a shambolic state.
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Mediator At first blush, there's a baffling, inside-out quality to Julian Assange's latest star turn in our shambolic national story.
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He was also interrogated on his role in a shambolic coup in 2000 and during a mutiny later in the same year.
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But when I moved to London, one thing I missed was Filbert Street, Leicester's shambolic old stadium (it was demolished in 2003).
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Instead, he is an avatar of the party's pathologies, the culmination of its cynical and shambolic trajectory over the last two decades.
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Hah. It would have been irresponsible — dangerous, even — for Mr. Trump to cooperate with such a shambolic and unfair investigation, they said.
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They barge in only to aggravate the lower-level debacles that punctuate routine in the "administrative oubliette" of squalid, shambolic Slough House.
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Labour's Corbyn said May was the architect of a constitutional crisis, "leading the most shambolic and chaotic government in modern British history".
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But from what we know of the shambolic handling of these negotiations, this is unlikely to be a good deal for the country.
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"This UK government's handling of these (Brexit) negotiations has been shambolic, chaotic, and utterly incompetent," said Sturgeon, closing a three-day SNP conference.
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At the end of a fairly shambolic convention, they were perhaps also celebrating the fact that Mr Trump suddenly looked like a winner.
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Mr. Cohn's other pet project — to develop a plan to rebuild American infrastructure — produced a shambolic proposal that is going nowhere in Congress.
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"Fyre Fraud" is one of two competing documentaries about the infamously shambolic Fyre Festival scam of 2017 (the other is streaming on Netflix).
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Sex Drive's appearance in a small room upstairs at the Tote at Maggot Fest this year turned into a wild, shambolic, and insane performance.
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The mayor pledged to involve the public before making any decisions, but efforts at community engagement, orchestrated by out-of-town advisers, proved shambolic.
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"SHAMBOLIC MISMANAGEMENT" Britain's biggest labour union Unite, which represents over 13,700 Interserve employees and is the largest union at the company, said http://bit.
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We'll see how the show, "Countryside, The Future," opening Thursday, is received during its six-month run — whether museumgoers find it exhilarating or shambolic.
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Fuzz-bomb guitar riffs, thrumming bass grooves, shambolic drum beats: On the surface, Cherry Glazerr might appear to be your average indie-rock band.
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The "shambolic" quality of Trump is precisely what is opening up these questions in a way that posing them intellectually never seemed to do.
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Huge, sometimes violent protests began erupting across Iraq in October, as people angry about unemployment, corruption and shambolic public services poured into the streets.
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Eight weeks ago she called a snap election, risking her government for the chance to bank a bigger majority against an apparently shambolic Labour opposition.
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With every jerk and stumble in its pursuit of and escape from JJ, Mullins convincingly shows how this shambolic creature with no feet might move.
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Yet the foreign secretary is in some ways an embodiment of what is wrong with Britain's foreign policy: shambolic, distracted and driven by domestic considerations.
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Worst practicesExpensive, shambolic, and humiliated though it might be, Juicero's problems as they're understood in the press and by the public are not beyond repair.
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But the tariff tale nonetheless epitomizes the pattern we're already seeing in this shambolic administration — a pattern of dysfunction, ignorance, incompetence, and betrayal of trust.
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"Basically, it is shambolic and if it was written by one of my law students, he or she would get a clear F mark," he said.
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Calling Britain's exit from the subcontinent "shambolic and tragic" he said that the "lack of such a museum" across either India or the UK "is striking".
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Donald Trump's selection of Mike Pence as his running mate didn't just seem chaotic; it really was chaotic, as made clear by the somewhat shambolic rollout.
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Exit polling projects that youth turnout increased 12 points from Miliband's shambolic performance in 2015, a reaction to Brexit and to the Conservative Party's austerity kink.
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In "The Snow Queen," the original shambolic Hans Christian Andersen saga that inspired "Frozen," the queen was an older, sexy, diabolical diva, keeping a boy captive.
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But, between 20113 and 22011, the mayor was Boris Johnson, a popular, seemingly shambolic figure, who showed that the Tories were capable of winning City Hall.
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Concluding a six-week inquest, British Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith criticized Tunisian security forces, saying their response had been "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly".
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"In its bilious cladding, chaotic form, adhesive balconies and frenzied facades, it exhibits the absolute worst in shambolic architectural design and cheap visual gimmickry," he continues.
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Instead, the process only became more shambolic and idiosyncratic as Mr. Trump, who supposedly found General McMaster pedantic and long-winded, increasingly made policy via Twitter.
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Disappointing against Iceland, Argentina put in a shambolic display against Croatia here in a 3-0 loss that left it on the verge of early elimination.
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They're meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump's shambolic tenure in office to date.
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Psychedelic and shambolic, the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's "The Art of Luv (Part 5): Swipe Right/ROKÉ Cupid" explores courtship in the age of the app.
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He's wearing a medallion and mirrored aviator shades, presiding over a shambolic but somehow grounded jam with a circle of collaborators like the guitarist Don Preston.
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Obamacare's patchwork set of amendments and shambolic rollout represent a "best-case scenario" for productive domestic policy, while military intervention and withdrawal are somehow equally ineffective.
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Even when portraying the needy, nearly shambolic Béatrice in "The Midwife," Ms. Deneuve is capable of vibrating with an elegance that implies both hauteur and froideur.
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Yet again, he escaped into a tunnel for a few hours, leaving behind a building that was a shambolic mess of bullet holes, bloodstains and decaying food.
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Despite its shambolic launch and the refusal of 19 states to expand Medicaid, it has come close to achieving initial forecasted reductions in the number of uninsured.
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"From what we know of the shambolic handling of these negotiations, this is unlikely to be a good deal for the country," he said in a statement.
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In the bizarre, shambolic universe of "Between Worlds," a schlubby truck driver named Joe (Nicolas Cage) has sex, repeatedly, with three women, one of whom is dead.
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Graying at the temples, with pouches under his eyes that push his face toward woebegone, he looked handsome, shambolic, exhausted — a lion left out in the rain.
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Makarau, who has been accused of being partisan, was overseeing an overhaul of the voters' roll, which the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has described as "shambolic".
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The films of Joel Potrykus have been described as slacker comedies, featuring, as they often do, shambolic losers barely surviving somewhere between working poor and utter destitution.
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But note as well instrumentals designated "Mexican Fenders #1" and "#2," a guitar-not-car metaphor that evokes the shambolic fuzz and droll electronic detritus he smears everywhere.
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Relentlessly introspective throughout, the songs range from 60s baroque to pop-industrial dirge to shambolic beats-driven twee that wouldn't be out of place on the Kids soundtrack.
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Charismatic, entertaining and often shambolic, Mr. Johnson was the figurehead for the Leave forces in the 2016 Brexit referendum that triggered three years and counting of political turmoil.
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Fallopian Tunes strikes again, with a precisely rendered collection of shambolic beats from Melbourne producer Exotic Snake, who, for some reason, I keep wanting to call Erotic Snake.
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More than nine months into this shambolic presidency, the vast majority of conservatives skeptical of Mr. Trump haven't broken with their Trump-curious institutions — at least not yet.
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A 250-page FBI report into its investigation into the affair, describes Mrs Clinton inheriting an institution with shambolic communication procedures, which she and her too-pliant aides perpetuated.
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While Donald Trump continued the slump that began at his own shambolic convention, the Democratic nominee has risen to the top of almost every national and swing-state poll.
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But as one who covers the tectonic shifts in information technology that are reordering the world, I found that the book also speaks unexpectedly to our own shambolic times.
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President Trump, as part of his kickback to the white evangelicals who got him elected, has fashioned this idea of religious supremacy into a cornerstone of his shambolic administration.
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"The response by police was at best shambolic and at worst cowardly," Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith, who presided over the British inquest, said at an emotional hearing on Tuesday.
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They'd dash off cover songs and even mash them together—the shambolic "With Or Without U2" being a medley of U2 songs mixed with The Misfits and The Vapors.
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The woman who really did transform Britain had a shambolic first term; privatisation and union reform, with which she is now associated, did not really get going until after 1983.
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Its shambolic Brexit negotiations give EU panjandrums nightmares about British ministers with no experience but abundant neo-imperial fantasies parading into negotiating rooms with the Chinese and losing their shirts.
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"In my lifetime, I have never experienced a British government which seems to be so shambolic," said Simon Hix, a professor of political science at the London School of Economics.
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At its best, the genre puts up a shambolic edifice that can obscure real rumbles of change — so long as the attitude is intact, the component parts can shift endlessly.
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While that was all pretty funny, the comparisons to the UFC's shambolic FOX debut end there because Saturday night's card was completely televised and delivered some scrumptious combat sports action.
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We envision a shambolic, barely First-World hellhole replete with crumbling infrastructure, wacky moral righteousness, 19th-century labor laws, a C.H.U.D. president, and a mass shooting on every street corner.
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Another is that nothing newsworthy came out of a heavily scripted interview with a CEO other than a few new buzzwords to slap on a shambolic but fantastically wealthy company. [CNN]
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For example, after a shambolic decade in which none of the three men elected as president of Ecuador finished his term, just 57% of those eligible cast valid votes in 2006.
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A win against Argentina, who have looked shambolic in their first two games despite boasting some of the biggest names in the game, would guarantee a place in the second round.
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Shambolic Serbian defending allowed France to stroll to another emphatic win without hitting top gear in the tournament's highest-scoring contest, as their defensive specialist Luka Karabatic rifled in seven goals.
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Seconds later he suggested Britain should crash out of the EU with no deal in October, and praised May's handling of the Brexit process — which has been widely panned as shambolic.
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"They're meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump's shambolic tenure in office to date," our critic Dwight Garner writes.
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As long as I believe he might be—as long as he's made me feel like I'm a witting part of his happily shambolic criminal conspiracy—he's pulled off his trick.
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The same is most likely true for a few individual dishes, although Mr. Moore's shambolic, celebratory cooking style is one of the reasons Pierre Lapin works as well as it does.
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Although shambolic by intent (at one point, Ken Kesey projected the message "Anybody who knows he is God go up on stage"), under Graham's Prussian promotion style the festival actually made money.
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Ross Douthat If the Trump campaign weren't such an all-consuming piece of performance art, the big story of this election would be the sheer shambolic strangeness of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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To this end, progressive and Democratic groups have launched extensive grassroots campaigns in the state, highlighting Trump's divisive policies towards Latino migrants, xenophobic rhetoric, and shambolic response to last year's Hurricane Michael.
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Books of The Times The Columbia professor Adam Tooze might be expected to have precious little in common with Stephen K. Bannon, the shambolic former chief strategist to President Donald J. Trump.
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It was a shambolic morass of a scandal that dragged on for 13 months, and many politicians and citizens became collateral damage—along with the nation's capacity for mercy, measure, and perspective.
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While the originals usually mask this impulse behind pop formalism, Hatfield's shambolic approach accentuates it, as Newton-John's chirpiness finds a natural corollary in the bleeding guitar fuzz and Hatfield's vocal quaver.
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He also believes that the EU should regain control of its borders - avoiding shambolic scenes witnessed on global TV networks - and provide Greece and Italy with sufficient funds to care for asylum seekers.
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Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron described it as a "frankly shambolic display", while the main opposition Labour Party's election coordinator Andrew Gwynne said May had thrown her election campaign into "chaos and confusion".
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Britain will hold a general election in December, giving a public that has become exhausted by the shambolic process another say on how, or even if, their country should leave the European Union.
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It was at the San Francisco headquarters of legendary punk zine Maximum Rocknroll that Scott, known for her time in shambolic trio Brilliant Colors, met Moore, of the influential queercore band Limp Wrist.
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His rollout of new travel restrictions aimed at offering a constitutionally, economically, and diplomatically viable alternative to his campaign pledge of a total ban on Muslim entry to the country has been shambolic.
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But the shambolic failure of attempts to deliver Brexit has given Mr. Farage another opening, and his newly founded Brexit Party threatens to become a guided missile aimed at Britain's two main parties.
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TomTom has previously provided data for Apple Maps — it was part of a shambolic patchwork of data providers at launch, but Apple reportedly kept using its services after overhauling the app as well.
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Linkin Park, which released its debut album, "Hybrid Theory," in 2000, was the most streamlined and pop-friendly of that generation's king-size bands — less shambolic than Korn, more mature than Limp Bizkit.
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The Sun, Britain's most popular newspaper, compared the party to the 1970s television classic "Fawlty Towers" in which Monty Python star John Cleese plays Basil who runs a shambolic hotel while complaining about foreigners.
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Two shambolic daytime events in north London at the end of June were beset by bar shortages and security issues, with an estimated 40% of the hired workforce absconding to watch the World Cup.
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Trump believes he can be successful by sowing chaos and confusion, which is true to the extent that he won the White House with a shambolic campaign in which he took many contradictory stances.
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But I didn't realise until I stood at the side of a table in a Los Angeles restaurant on a weekend afternoon that brunch is a shambolic indulgence extended to every clown in America.
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In Mexico City, Rocío Vazquez Landeta of Eat Like a Local is conscious of the income differential between the visitors on her forays through the shambolic La Merced market and the vendors they meet.
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LONDON — Britain's shambolic efforts to leave the European Union have sometimes been likened to the Suez crisis in 1956, when a botched military intervention in Egypt underscored the limitations of post-imperial British power.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan abruptly canceled his planned meeting with National Security Adviser John Bolton on Tuesday, a major embarrassment for the US that further complicates the Trump administration's shambolic Syria withdrawal rollout.
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We know now that under our shambolic democracy, a man as unfit as Mr. Trump really can legitimately acquire all the terrifying powers of the presidency without being controlled by a foreign puppet master.
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The film is by no means as shambolic as "The Cloverfield Paradox" or as aimless as "Mute", but it is tightrope-walking the fine line between open-ended, mind-expanding mystery and lethargic, pretentious twaddle.
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Johnson, whose sported a sometimes shambolic persona in his rise to power, showed mettle in office, sweeping away his predecessor's government in one of the biggest culls of senior government jobs in recent British history.
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GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - The British government's "shambolic" handling of its divorce talks with the European Union demonstrates that Scotland needs to become independent, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party (SNP) on Tuesday.
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However, visibly suffering from a cold, interrupted by a prankster and with parts of the stage falling apart, May delivered a shambolic speech that has given fresh impetus to those who would like her removed.
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"We are considering all options and discussing with all parties the best way to prevent a disastrous no-deal Brexit and get rid of this shambolic (Conservative) government as soon as possible," the source added.
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The awful repetition of the phrase "I think" -- as the speaker desperately gathers together their thoughts -- is embarrassingly followed by a shambolic collection of perception, personal theories, guesswork and sometimes stuff that is simply made up.
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It will be vital to avoid unforced errors such as Jollibee's shambolic overhaul of its IT systems in 2014, which briefly closed more than 70 of its branches and which is still weighing on its performance.
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Her morose father misplaces his gun; it's found by a neighborhood slacker who gives it to an even more shambolic character, Lee (the filmmaker Larry Fessenden), a 30-ish ne'er-do-well living with his grandmother.
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In a country with endemic corruption, shambolic service delivery, a faltering civil service, regular national power outages, rampant wealth gaps, a plummeting currency and an increasingly restless, frustrated population, who knows how important that might be?
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The result is Theresa May's shambolic attempt to deliver the impossible, a job she's graced with because nobody else wants it — save Jeremy Corbyn, whose left-populism seems entirely unready for power in its own way.
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While momos are common currency in this neighborhood that is home to many Tibetan and Nepalese immigrants, sold everywhere from minimalist modern storefronts to shambolic basement dining rooms, Mr. Amchok's are the ones I return for.
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The company had barely gotten off the ground when Twitter approached him with a buyout offer, hoping to use his expertise to fix the shambolic security that had led to repeated hacks of celebrity and journalist accounts.
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Lyrically, what distinguishes this album is a particular focus on racial injustice, perhaps prompted by unease about her own role as a white woman splicing elements of foreign and especially African music into her own shambolic bricolage.
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As discussions got serious this week in Brussels — amid open feuding, cabinet splits and confusion over policy objectives back in London — Britain's handling of its most important negotiations since World War II was starting to look shambolic.
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" Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would "look at the details" of the deal, "but from what we know of the shambolic handling of these negotiations, this is unlikely to be a good deal for the country.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Chawla Hotels will convert three aging properties to the American Idea brand and build a four-star hotel under another Trump brand, Scion, which launched, in a similarly shambolic fashion, last fall.
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Peoples from across Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divides thronged Baghdad's Tahrir Square in a show of fury at an elite they see as deeply corrupt, beholden to foreign powers and responsible for daily privations and shambolic public services.
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Works like "I-10 Westbound" (2017) make evident the shambolic nature of the rescue operations that took place: Lafitte depicts a swarm of people exiting military helicopters and being lined up on the ground by machine-gun-wielding soldiers.
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It proposes fixing the shambolic security of internet-of-things consumer devices like routers and webcams, re-organizing responsibility for the cybersecurity of federal agencies, and fostering a new generation of skilled American cybersecurity experts, among other actionable steps.
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In the aftermath of Trump's election and the GOP's shambolic attempts to get rid of the ACA, this landmark piece of liberal legislation has finally achieved what it never had before: a net positive image in the eyes of the public.
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His shambolic performance as foreign secretary included inaccurate public comments that a British-Iranian woman being held in an Iranian jail on charges of espionage had been teaching journalism — remarks that Iran's regime used as a justification for her ongoing detention.
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The next day he hosted a barbecue at his house in Oxfordshire that was described in The Telegraph as "boozy, shambolic, disorganized and ill-disciplined" — which sounds fun but maybe not for a politician in the middle of a world crisis.
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"Given the shambolic nature of the negotiations, this is unlikely to be the right deal for Britain," Keir Starmer told the BBC, reiterating the party stance that it would not back a Brexit deal which did not meet the party's tests.
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Sirleaf's government has also been plagued with corruption charges, high unemployment and a shambolic health system that is still trying to regain its footing after the devastation of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, which killed more people in Liberia than anywhere else.
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But interviews with several of Mr. Usovsky's collaborators, and the contents of his hacked computer, suggest that it was at times a more shambolic affair, hampered by money squabbles, intramural rivalries and absurdly distorted views of how politics works outside Russia.
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Still, Trump and his allies are already signaling the report is an unequivocal victory, once that exonerates the President from the various misdeeds -- collusion, obstruction -- that his opponents have used as bywords for what they regard as a shambolic presidency.
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From the hints dropped by the subpoenas, one gets the impression that the inauguration was a shambolic grabfest in which people with money tried to turn it into power and people who suddenly had power tried to turn it into money.
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The 55-year-old, famous for his messy mop of blond hair and disheveled style, has turned upper-class English eccentricity into a political asset in Britain and perfected a personal brand based on a comic talent and a seemingly shambolic style.
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It was shambolic during its previous turn in government, from 2000 to 2007, but it returned to ministerial power last December with a more sober image, having made efforts to distance itself from the right-wing Austrian social networks known as "fraternities".
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Rio Olympic Games got off to a shambolic start on Saturday as fans queued for hours at security checkpoints to enter venues, with some missing their events and many athletes competing in front of eerily empty stands.
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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Reuters) - Argentina's despondent coach Jorge Sampaoli took the blame for Thursday's shambolic 3-0 World Cup defeat by Croatia as he tried to deflect the criticism from a terrible goalkeeping mistake and a poor performance by his captain Lionel Messi.
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Donald Trump's foreign policy has mostly been shambolic, but credit where it is due: Other than the stunning folly of the announced withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, where they could help check Tehran's regional ambitions, he has gotten Iran mostly right.
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Much will hinge on the sentiments of a fickle British public that is not just divided into warring camps but exhausted with the whole shambolic process and hoping for something, anything, finally to be decided — as long as it is not for the other side.
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Then in 1998, Gingrich presided over Clinton's impeachment in the House, a shambolic catastrophe that wound up with the president acquitted in the Senate and Republicans pulling off a virtually unheard of feat: losing seats in the midterm election of an opposition president's second term.
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"Andy McDonald MP, Labour's shadow transport secretary, said the PAC report "exposes the government's shambolic no-deal Brexit preparations" and added "it is beyond belief that he [Grayling] should be given another opportunity to squander public cash and throw our transport networks into chaos.
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Ultimately, the fact that she can do that without prompting a pushback is not so much a personal flaw of putting party politics over statecraft, but a reflection of the shambolic state of the parliamentary opposition under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party.
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Only for a few shambolic days do we join the lives of these men, yet we feel that we know them, down to their underwear, and we ask ourselves what will become of them, and how the kid will survive his stretch in the slammer.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Rio Olympic Games got off to a shambolic and nervous start on Saturday, with organizers apologizing to angry fans kept waiting for hours at security checkpoints to enter venues while, outside, shootings and bomb scares kept visitors on edge.
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In the end, Russia and the West have landed with a much poorer, more chaotic and more divided version of what they had before 2014: an impoverished, shambolic Ukraine caught permanently between East and West and acting as a source of tension between them.
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Four decades later, I can't imagine a better inheritor of Gielgud's role as the shambolic poet Spooner than Ian McKellen, in a new London production directed by Sean Mathias that returns the play to its original West End home at Wyndham's Theater through Dec. 17.
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The Scottish Labour Party, previously firmly entrenched in power, held a shambolic conference on February 24th-26th, at which Mr Corbyn failed to endorse its leader's proposal for a federal Britain and Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London, caused a storm by appearing to call the nationalists bigoted.
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Four days after declaring themselves to have outgrown Europe, the English must now watch their national football team leave the 266 Euros in infamy after losing to Iceland, the smallest nation ever to play in the tournament, in a shambolic 22016-1 defeat in Nice on June 27th.
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But if the Teapot Dome investigation was diligent, it was ultimately shallow, failing to address larger issues such as the inevitable government corruption caused by Prohibition or a shambolic financial system supported in part by routine gifts of corporate "preferred stock" to any number of politicians and power brokers.
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Installed on the sixth floor terrace over the High Line, her shambolic tableaus of lurching figures in plaster, metal and Fiberglass embody the exhibition's history-conjuring, identity-expanding, form-scrambling tendencies, and projects them loud, with a rude anarchic belch of a kind that's otherwise missing from the show.
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Kieran Hebden And Steve Reid - 'Noemie' This reminds me a lot of certain Art Ensemble of Chicago live recordings – lots of bells, clipped flute sounds, a certain shambolic yet controlled sense of arrangement, and a very textural approach to percussion in these records has influenced a lot of my own work.
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After you play your first show, you're either on your way or not, to whatever strange ambition you've set for yourself, whether it be an entirely fraudulent career of being the middle-sized font band at Coachella or a lovable shambolic local opener that all your significant others and former bassists adore.
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Along with his supposed proclivity for fast food binges and Chinese takeaways – in the unimaginatively titled My Autobiography, Alex Ferguson called Bosnich a "terrible professional" on account of his shambolic diet – there was a sense in which the chirpy New South Walian allowed himself to be made into a crude national cliche.
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The Conservative vote was always going to fall: Mr Cameron had built up a huge personal vote and the flightier parts of it were unlikely to switch to Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, to a currently leaderless and shambolic UKIP or the still-marginal Green Party, even one fronted locally by Larry Sanders, brother of Bernie.
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Istanbul had worse public transport, worse water quality and worse pollution than shambolic Cairo; the cheap lignite used for home heating clouded its winter skies in a perpetual acrid fug, and the soupy waters of the Golden Horn, a sea inlet that bisects the European side of the city, were too polluted to sustain fish.
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"Every other town is having a go, small villages will make a really cheap mascot, like, they'll cobble it together out of a cardboard box and some fabric and it'll be based on a design from the local eight-year-old and they'll have this shambolic mascot wandering around the town," Carlier told me.
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This is the dream of the far-right U.K. Independence Party — a tiny, shambolic party that has somehow succeeded in hijacking and redirecting government policy on the most important issue facing Britain in the last half-century (and one that, it seems more and more likely, will lead to the breakup of Britain itself).
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The rare self-portrait that opens the first section of the exhibition, "The Town Child's Journey," though painted in 1931, is of a slightly shambolic youth (His teacher at Camberwell, A.S. Hartrick, described him as "an incurable romantic"), yet seems surprisingly true-to-life, to judge by a photograph of the artist taken four years earlier.
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In 2016, as one of the most recognisable faces of the Brexit campaign, Johnson was accused of making untenable claims, most notably that Britain would be 350 million pounds ($440 million) a week better off outside the EU. Yet his sometimes shambolic appearance and disarmingly self-deprecating persona have allowed him to survive both gaffes and scandal.
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In 2016, as one of the most recognisable faces of the Brexit campaign, Johnson was accused of making untenable claims, most notably that Britain would be 350 million pounds ($440 million) a week better off outside the EU. Yet his sometimes shambolic appearance, self-deprecating persona and knack for humour have allowed him to survive both gaffes and scandal.
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London (CNN)Theresa May's so-called "survival" of the vote of no confidence this week, by 200 votes to 117, offered a rare moment of clarity amid the chaos that passes for Britain's shambolic exit from the EU. But it's unclear whether either she or the EU recognized it, or are ready to grasp what it means.
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Ian McKellen returned to the West End in an invaluable revival of "No Man's Land," Harold Pinter's 1975 play whose signature moment came in the first act, when Mr. McKellen's shambolic poet, Spooner, recounted having once been described as "a betwixt twig peeper" — the actor savoring every syllable of a phrase that makes me smile even now.
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But nothing about the shambolic Rex Tillerson, the martinet generals John Kelly and Jim Mattis, or the courtly Jefferson Beauregard Sessions suggests the casting of a competition: While all of them abased themselves in misguided efforts to contain or use the president, none of them craved his approval once they realized he was more likely to hinder their agendas.
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Nik Colk Void: When we play live now we're still using a certain amount of gear, it's like we have no idea if it's going to work sometimes and if I'm playing modular stuff, I don't know if I'm going to blow up the speaker because of the frequency—so there's still this shambolic element to us playing our tools live.
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But as I sat watching in Hannah-esque overalls and drinking my fluorescent Jarritos (because I felt too terrible to care about food colouring), I was overcome with the sinking feeling that Hannah's shambolic path to parenthood — unmarried, jobless, judged by her loved ones and herself as unfit for motherhood — was the cultural story that would haunt me through the months of my waxing belly.
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But amid the shambolic style of Joe Biden's front-running campaign to date, the flip-flops and apparent gaffes, it's possible to discern a certain method, a general plan for how the candidate hopes to run for president: by changing positions on issues when he needs to, but without betraying his own amour-propre, his sense of what being Joe Biden is supposed to mean.
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So if you want to remake the Republican Party as something other than a shambolic repository for anti-liberalism, the only way it's likely to happen is from the top down — with the election of an effective, policy-oriented conservative president (which Donald Trump is not), surrounded by people who understand the ways of power (which Bannon, for all his bluster, didn't) and prepared to both negotiate with Democrats and bend his own party to his will.
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Their opponents in the alleged party of small government put forward a shambolic response to the onset of the coronavirus crisis that could end up costing tens of thousands of lives, if not more, after Trump fired the White House's pandemic response team in 2018; late Thursday and early Friday news emerged that three GOP senators and one Democratic senator had been caught making millions of dollars' worth of stock market deals after a closed-door briefing.
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