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"ramshackle" Definitions
  1. (of buildings, vehicles, furniture, etc.) in a very bad condition and needing repair synonym tumbledown
  2. (of an organization or a system) badly organized or designed and not likely to last very long synonym rickety

664 Sentences With "ramshackle"

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" The Washington Post described her rustic settings as "ramshackle.
So the state party is responsible for this ramshackle process.
Britain's ramshackle constitution allows plenty of scope for such shenanigans.
But fixing up a ramshackle house can cost a fortune.
His mother called him from her ramshackle home in Wukan.
Sometimes I collected eggs from my satisfyingly ramshackle chicken coop.
There was corruption in the ramshackle FBI  "investigation" into it.
Mining accidents are common in these ramshackle operations, workers said.
It is raucous and rowdy, and just a little ramshackle.
Muratova lived in a small, ramshackle hut with no electricity.
Among the most pressing: Was the ramshackle building ever inspected?
The road is lined with endless rows of ramshackle redbrick buildings.
Cuban hotels are notorious for their ramshackle furnishings and poor service.
Favelas are rambling, ramshackle, unplanned housing developments for Rio's working poor.
This is a poor, ramshackle place surrounded by farmland and desert.
African airports are not so ramshackle; Western ones not so impenetrable.
So, we had no option but a ramshackle hotel in Georgetown.
Each of her metamorphoses eschew sterile computer graphics for ramshackle practical effects.
Conditions were terrible, with the inmates crammed together into crumbling, ramshackle cells.
He's committing to movies with big premise hooks, and ramshackle follow-through.
Painted lime green, it stands out against the other ramshackle clapboard structures.
That's what the latest installment of the ramshackle comedy attempted to ask.
With great effort, she tracked down others living in illegal, ramshackle households.
What pass for camps -- officially called "informal tented settlements" -- are ramshackle affairs.
Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN)Fatumata Hassan sits in the opening of her ramshackle shelter.
Shooting baskets alone on a ramshackle hoop became his refuge from everyday hardship.
Our heroine meets the aviator after moving next door to his ramshackle house.
Hinkston and her three children as they face eviction from a ramshackle building
Tens of thousands of Rohingya were disenfranchised as they languished in ramshackle camps.
It was the muddy pitch and the barren, ramshackle stands behind the goal.
Mechanical problems arise, with some of the more ramshackle machines often breaking down.
They meet outside a ramshackle building that used to be Freddy's BBQ (RIP).
Many in gainful employment are also forced to live in ramshackle settlement dwellings.
Finding it closed, Vibeke resigns herself to dropping by a ramshackle carnival instead.
They renovated a ramshackle farmhouse into a bakery and started an organic farm.
Their operating bases are ramshackle cottages and garages polka-dotted with bullet holes.
Part of The Masked Singer's charm is just how ramshackle it can feel.
THE "Jungle" camp in Calais—squalid, ramshackle and lawless—was no place for children.
Many of them rent cramped accommodation in ramshackle "migrant villages" on the city's edges.
On the civilian side of the ramshackle airport a few planes come and go.
In the middle of nowhere it sat, half cowboy haunt and half ramshackle house.
For many packed into a cluster of ramshackle huts, India was a safe zone.
There are ramshackle cement rectangles squatting under rain clouds in the sheep-strewn boonies.
Around the first bend was a ramshackle mining settlement, tarps stretched over tree poles.
When Haas emerged from his ramshackle rental house, he was trembling and holding a .
Myspace and Xanga helped us set up temporary and ramshackle museums of our tastes.
And as inspiration for a sardonic, ramshackle show, you could do a lot better.
Today the charmingly ramshackle village, with its chunky cobblestone lanes, is crammed with galleries.
We could dismiss the Greens as a ramshackle operation incapable of doing basic paperwork.
Ramshackle wooden stalls had been weathered by the winter to the colour of pewter.
After the prologue, a ramshackle hospital on the outskirts of Washington comes into view.
Despite the museum's impressive-sounding name, it was comically ramshackle, with no permanent collection.
Speaking at his ramshackle campaign headquarters in a leafy neighbourhood, Ahok vowed to fight on.
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)There are also other notable concerns like Google's ramshackle quality control.
Mines are torn out of the landscape, and ramshackle mining towns exist perilously close by.
It has the high spirits of an eighteenth-century novel, but not the ramshackle mechanics.
The record's pleasantly ramshackle spirit evoked a fruitful jam session with moments of gospel elevation.
The dance floor (more of a dance pit) really ties the whole ramshackle place together.
But for this frequent visitor, it was a needed replacement for the ramshackle old structure.
"They're helping to revive the farm," he said at his ramshackle ranch one recent afternoon.
Gelambong drove us out of downtown that afternoon, to the ramshackle waterfront port of Kumai.
From its ramshackle beginnings, Bellevue has ministered to penniless immigrants, and it still does today.
The restaurant was in a ramshackle strip mall, a few doors down from a laundromat.
The ramshackle huts often have small doors and no windows, with poor sanitation and ventilation.
Upon arrival, you're led into a ramshackle-looking structure whose shape hints at a circus tent.
There are still six other tenants in the ramshackle building who are uninvolved in the project.
There workers dye animal hides in small, ramshackle buildings without infrastructure for absorbing hazardous waste byproducts.
A driving game needed to be better than the honking, zooming ramshackle bouncing of a Dacia.
Every Friday, one of us makes the four-hour trek to the other's ramshackle shoebox apartment.
That site - which still represents his entire output - is in a ramshackle building near Aleppo stadium.
The vast majority of cariocas live neither along beachfront avenues nor the alleyways of ramshackle favelas.
His presentation is not always the smoothest thing, so shows can be ramshackle but that's okay.
The citizens of New London walked past the tombstones holding bright lamps, into the ramshackle mausoleum.
One occupied a ramshackle rural house and spoke bitterly about the ruin of her literary career.
At the mouth of the valley, a ramshackle fence blocks the road leading to El Diente.
A sudden surge in infections would probably overwhelm Russia's extensive but often ramshackle state medical system.
It's full of pretty, tender songs arranged simply and almost whimsically, intentionally ramshackle, full of life.
Unlike Eko Atlantic, the ramshackle settlement had no fortifications to protect it from the changing climate.
Some landed in wooden sheds, others in old shotgun shacks, and many in his ramshackle house.
In the case of "Comedian," though it seems ramshackle, it is a carefully thought out assemblage.
The production deploys them with wit and efficiency, while retaining an endearing air of ramshackle spontaneity.
In ramshackle Yaarmag itself, Battulga's childhood home, angry residents say politicians have failed to keep promises.
Water surged through the city, causing mudslides that killed hundreds of people and washed away ramshackle homes.
For most of our history, American political parties were ramshackle coalitions of diverse and even contradictory viewpoints.
Three days later, police unearthed the body of a toddler at the ramshackle settlement north of Taos.
Dazzling yet shabby, abundant yet decaying, the East London street market is a ramshackle bazaar of contradictions.
She sat in a plastic chair in a ramshackle house, the concrete foundation cracking beneath her feet.
Amazingly, Jenny Koons's perkily ramshackle production manages to keep the energy up for the next 90 minutes.
A ramshackle throwback to a funkier, more literary time, the store has shelves handmade from raw lumber.
The game was meaningless, it was ramshackle and bad, it was very much The Sasha Vujacic Game.
Drive along any side road and you'll see them—ramshackle sprays of tents, fashioned from UNHRC tarp.
Dressed in a ramshackle Link costume my mother had made for halloween, I indulged in this fantasy.
I'd love to know what he'd make of The Brothers Grimsby, the ramshackle new action-comedy from Sacha
"You can knock this place down, I don't care," Evans told me, referring to the ramshackle facility itself.
In Brazil, for example, Mr Bolsonaro's government is a ramshackle assortment of generals, economic liberals and social conservatives.
On three sides of the city ramshackle neighbourhoods are populated by migrants from all across Mongolia's vast countryside.
From Jyn's origins to her ramshackle rebel crew (including Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed and Donnie Yen).
But travelling through the ramshackle, ugly buildings it used to use as terminals was rather like going commercial.
Many of the civilians are then heading north to a ramshackle camp just inside Syria at al Hawl.
Families with young children were living in ramshackle homes: The dirt floors turned to mud when it rained.
This rock was fatty and a bit ramshackle, reformed by technology, and optimized to be exciting every moment.
Despite making it through the European open and regional qualifiers, doubts were still cast on this ramshackle roster.
Pickton was convicted of killing six women whose partial remains were found on his ramshackle property near Vancouver.
Their ramshackle kidnap plan, meanwhile, is every bit as whimsical as the one woven through The Big Lebowski.
I'm not sure why she picked this ramshackle movie to make her comeback, but I'm glad she did.
MR DENG'S ramshackle lumber yard on the edge of town offers a wide array of wood for sale.
Video broadcast by WCPO, a local television station, showed investigators walking through woods and searching a ramshackle shed.
Over the following six decades, persistent slave escapes tested the ramshackle machinery put in place to halt them.
Until recently, only those in the know could make an appointment to dig through Mr. Boehm's ramshackle system.
Recently renovated, the apartment is also far more expensive — $1,450 a month — than their earlier, more ramshackle places.
Rubbish, debris and discarded items such as bicycles could be seen next to the ramshackle, shantytown-style tents.
The report warns that ramshackle prisons holding some 10,000 jihadists could provide the wellspring of a new insurgency.
First we meet Rose, standing in the kitchen of a ramshackle seaside cottage and ignoring a prodigious nosebleed.
The performance was startlingly beautiful: a warm, slightly ramshackle night of poetry and song with a spiritual air.
Instead, they discovered that many of the artists had pulled out due to serious organizational flaws and ramshackle conditions.
The bureaucracy was found to be ramshackle; there was talk of "military tourism" and luxury hotel stays in Rome.
Samba schools are social clubs, really, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
They must pay to send them to ramshackle private ones instead, which are often worse than rural state schools.
The single is bedroomy power pop that disguises its effortlessness with ramshackle charm and subverts that with caustic lyrics.
Britain's ramshackle, easily amended constitution is vulnerable to the radicalised politics produced by three years spent rowing about Brexit.
The action-packed chases are well-shot, especially those in the crumbling and ramshackle buildings of Delhi and Mumbai.
Twenty-five years ago today, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas.
Collectors of rare books and posters of China find gems in the ramshackle alleyways devoted to old paper items.
Many live in ramshackle wooden houses along the riverbanks, making their living as day laborers or at food carts.
And while Victorian gangs didn't exactly coalesce into a sprawling criminal empire like Starrick's, they weren't ramshackle organizations, either.
The brothel is a ramshackle village of sagging huts built on the banks of a sinking island called Banishanta.
Before we left Athos, Ioanikios showed me his office in a ramshackle building at their tiny port of Daphne.
They live in ramshackle dorms in the backstretch at Belmont, which straddles the border between Queens and Long Island.
In the film, the fictional Dorothea is a divorced single mother who rents out rooms in her ramshackle home.
The event was quickly cancelled, with most of the artists pulling out due to serious organizational flaws and ramshackle conditions.
Maine is miles of ramshackle houses, roads worsening each spring season, miles of woods, old mill towns, and abandoned buildings.
On the other side of the main road is an area of ramshackle older houses of two or three storeys.
Just one old farmhouse, about four other ramshackle buildings, nothing growing, and winter and snow on their way very soon.
The record has a DIY, ramshackle energy to it, but there's not a single note that seems out of place.
Ramshackle outbuildings often were lovingly referred to as shacks — the art shack, the nature shack — itself sometimes a generous characterization.
One continually marvels at the spare, unmuddied jazz of a Vonnegut sentence and too often despairs of his ramshackle plots.
The migrants have long been known to live in squalid conditions as they wait to board ramshackle and unseaworthy vessels.
An overgrown mound of brush had hidden a ramshackle shed, old tires, a porcelain toilet and hundreds of sizable rocks.
In 21.3, she photographed ramshackle tents lining a canal; a group of Model T's making haphazard camp in a gully.
"This thing began with some ramshackle theatre shit, and beauty, and really old-school storytelling up in Vermont," Chavkin said.
The building's charmingly ramshackle conditions fostered a close-knit community of visual artists, photographers, musicians, authors, and other creative professionals.
Clayton Morris has been sued by nearly two dozen customers who say they were sold ramshackle homes as investment properties.
A poster near the coffin, which lies beside a stinking canal cut between ramshackle homes, demands "Justice for Eric Quintinita Sison".
Still, it would be hard to miss her happiness on this sunny spring day at a ramshackle house in Beverly Hills.
His improvised workshop at the back of a cattle shed may seem ramshackle, but his knives are things of rare beauty.
Home sweet home The crumbling, ramshackle Detroit house that Rosa Parks once lived in has found a new home -- in Germany.
That just plays into the strangely ramshackle way the split was handled, and it made Battleground tough to enjoy in spots.
On the other hand, her farm worked, where mine is still a ramshackle shitshow: everything is hoarded and little actually built.
Tickets are often elusive, with the ramshackle infrastructure unable to cope with the demand, and trains do not run on schedule.
Thanks to the priorities of private benefactors and Gulf donors, many villages with unpaved roads and ramshackle schools sport multiple mosques.
NKANDLA, Jacob Zuma's private estate (pictured) in the hills of South Africa's Zulu heartland, makes for a ramshackle presidential pleasure-dome.
We dropped Mr. William off at his house, a ramshackle gray structure adorned with satellite dishes and a pile of firewood.
An Israeli agency paid for our passage and our little ramshackle farmhouse; once our produce was profitable, we'd pay them back.
Juan persuaded her to tell him where the boy had taken her: a small, ramshackle house on the outskirts of town.
The neighborhood was quite ramshackle when we moved in, and to this day it hosts a significant population of indigent men.
He, his father and an uncle now live in a ramshackle farm building along with Ms. Zarutskaya and her young son.
Then he hears a jazz combo playing from a second-story window, leading him into the ramshackle speakeasy of the title.
The summit yielded a commitment to shore up Libya's ramshackle truce arrangement but the gathering was overshadowed by Haftar's oil blockades.
Mansfield found that local cooks are converting a cold remedy, Panadol CF, which contains pseudoephedrine, into methamphetamine in ramshackle kitchen labs.
The ramshackle village, Umm al-Hiran, was scheduled for demolition after its residents lost a long legal battle against the government.
Like the others, they were born in destitution, sharing a ramshackle single-room home with their parents and two more siblings.
But I prefer to see in it the mystery of consciousness, that other delicate movement sitting atop a miraculous, ramshackle machine.
The three faced 11 counts of child abuse and neglect after police raided their ramshackle settlement north of Taos on Aug.
Mr Bolsonaro heads a ramshackle alliance of populist-nationalists (notably two of his sons), religious zealots, business lobbies and the security forces.
His ramshackle house outside Gjoa Haven, with hot water drawn from a camping stove, also had the best internet connection in town.
According to the leaders of the Lindavista camp, its ramshackle shacks are home to around 750 people, divided into roughly 250 families.
Whether you're a fan of lo-fi country, ramshackle punk, or piano-heavy dance music, there's a Teen Suicide song for everyone.
Russia created a lot of ramshackle conservative "media outlets" that viciously slandered Hillary Clinton and other Democrats throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.
He sought to isolate it by polarising politics between "the people" and the "neoliberals" and by engineering a ramshackle coalition of opportunists.
While he mostly chooses derelict and ramshackle backgrounds, the monsters themselves are cartoon-like and cheerful, reflecting Mumbai's resilient and vibrant nature.
That day, his chest was emblazoned with the image of a somewhat ramshackle model that sometimes ran along this line: the R32.
In the distance, smoke rises beyond a ramshackle tent, and further afield more soldiers appear enshrouded by a misty gloom like ghosts.
Ivaporunduva is a ramshackle farming community, built near the Devil's Cavern, a remote place where runaway slaves once hid from hunting parties.
When June is transferred to her new handmaid post at Lawrence's ramshackle house, figuring out her new boss becomes her primary objective.
These people will stay at the ramshackle hostel until they die—and those are the ones lucky enough to get a bed.
At its center is Nick Laine (Stephen Bogardus), who rents out rooms in his ramshackle house in the hope of forestalling foreclosure.
Mir, the Russian space station, was seen as ramshackle and dated, about to be replaced by the bigger, better International Space Station.
On the day of the 9/11 attacks, during a mesmeric, ramshackle press conference, Giuliani was asked about the number of casualties.
Mr. Putin's critics instead see a far more ramshackle structure racked by infighting over access to money, favors and the president's ear.
"All I can do is wait," Lyda said, sitting in a ramshackle cafe as Cambodians dragged giant nets onto trawlers behind him.
With the property under his name, he expected to evict the existing tenants, clearing his path for renovation on the ramshackle structure.
Or that ramshackle hair factories have sprouted up all over Southeast Asia, all powered by the demand for extensions, weaves and wigs?
Other children were starving, authorities say Police raided the ramshackle compound August 3, hoping to find 3-year-old Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj.
Inside, up some ramshackle steps, a line of customers forms early at lunchtime to order at the counter and take a number.
But he had been a taxi-driver in the capital for decades, and knew the ramshackle place like the back of his hand.
Meanwhile, Quaker City Mercantile built a modern, explosion-proof booze fortress on the grounds of the ramshackle Tamworth Inn a few houses down.
It likened the FRC to a "ramshackle house" built on weak foundations, and recommended its replacement by a new regulator with more powers.
Two months later, Manson was arrested after he was found hiding in a bathroom cabinet at a ramshackle ranch in Death Valley, California.
Its standard-bearers were The Band, whose mix of ramshackle rock'n'roll and old-timey aesthetics would form the basis of the Americana genre.
Whatever the fate of his relationship with Ryan, Trump's presidency, like his ramshackle candidacy, seems destined to be played out in episodic chaos.
It would be hard to describe the players on this record, so tightly woven after five-odd years playing together, as "ramshackle" anymore.
NATO advisors would swear blind that you were wrong, that the ramshackle units you saw could defeat a hungry and angry local insurgency.
But when I think about a lot of my favorite games, I'm struck by how many of them have a slow, ramshackle beginning.
Mr. Trump and his daughter Ivanka sued the company, saying their brand was being tarnished by the ramshackle appearance of the Taj Mahal.
Feature The main thoroughfare bisecting the town of Faranah, a ramshackle regional capital of 80,000 in central Guinea, is a bustling commercial carnival.
The first thing you notice when you return to "Cracked Rear View" now is how ramshackle and loose at the edges it feels.
A stop at the charmingly ramshackle bookshop Bell, Book and Candle was a quick lesson in literary history from the owner, Paul Deacy.
His ramshackle house down a muddy lane has no electricity or running water and his school-age daughter has to study by candlelight.
His ramshackle house down a muddy lane has no electricity or running water and his school-age daughter has to study by candlelight.
He was focused on the gunman and his accomplices — right-wing ultranationalists who lived in a constellation of ramshackle towns in central Ukraine.
Often referred to as Africa's largest slum, Kibera is home to up to a million people living side by side in ramshackle homes.
In 1969, Melcher began visiting wannabe rock star Manson at his ramshackle dwelling, the Spahn Ranch – likely, Love writes, as a favor to Wilson.
Many lived in hangars, others in ramshackle tents just meters (yards) from the runway as planes rumbled past, and some slept inside disused aircraft.
In 1969, Melcher began visiting wannabe rock star Manson at his ramshackle dwelling, the Spahn Ranch — likely, Love wrote, as a favor to Wilson.
Each time he came to schoolteacher Katherine Barlow with his cart of onions, he offered to act as a handyman on her ramshackle schoolhouse.
When he undertakes a daunting project — the construction of a crude boat using ramshackle materials — the antipathy of the townspeople reaches a boiling point.
It was like all of Karagumruk's streets: so narrow and intimate that the pastel-colored apartments, ramshackle buildings and storefronts seemed poised to embrace.
Afterward, we had dessert crepes next door at Happy Pancake Workshop, a ramshackle operation that was manned by three affable young actors from Sofia.
Don't expect a coherent narrative, but this ramshackle show mixing Washington Irving, borscht belt jokes and "Dirty Dancing" has an odd charm (1:30).
A representative of a New York mosque says the raid of a ramshackle compound in New Mexico is being used as propaganda against Muslims.
They had bought the ranch more than 25 years earlier, and they both worked to rebuild the ramshackle house on the property, she said.
With all that beauty and meaning in mind, let's making some ramshackle claims as to What Your Pet Name Says About You – shall we?
There, in one of six tiny ramshackle cabins perched 50 feet in the air — accessible by a dangerously rickety ladder — the second group awaits.
I met Mr. Tang's father, Tang Chunwu, and his mother, Liao Mandong, in their rented ramshackle inn, where they were drying their shoes off.
Connections abound within and across the works in the show, but those connections are precarious, ramshackle, and fragmentary, riddled with holes and frayed ends.
" Cold-water shower stalls and outhouses form a ramshackle central corridor on the rooftop, bordered by flowering planters that lend a "cheerful tropical air.
Decorated with posters, mismatched chairs and British knickknacks, it looks more like the ramshackle studio apartment of a graduate student than a V.I.P. haunt.
Yet the movie has a ramshackle charm that's due entirely to its vivacious leads, whose mutual devotion and easy, unlabeled sexuality feels endearingly innocent.
The people behind those headlights catch up, capture him, drive him to a grand but ramshackle manor and make him part of their gang.
Down a dirt road, past ramshackle cabins and horses, one group of permanently rewilding people have set up a series of yurts and shelters.
Campolo, his wife and his two children moved into a ramshackle house with no real appliances, just a space heater and a hot plate.
They know that once she disappears up the stairs of their ramshackle summerhouse, she is finding a vein, getting a fix and slipping away.
The ramshackle house she rents is filled with heirlooms, mementos of a home that was once filled with children, a husband, a thriving family.
Turner, as portrayed by Parker, is not a recluse but a warm, encouraging preacher who delivers sermons in the ramshackle church on his plantation.
The brand's clingy dresses and animal-print jumpsuits are often made by people like Mercedes Cortes, working in ramshackle buildings that smell like bathrooms.
If you were, say, the ramshackle East Timorese embassy, might you not want to class up your operation a little with Mr. Trump's name?
For more than a decade he had owned a sprawling property in Cape Town, not perturbed by its long, dark driveway or ramshackle fencing.
His grandfather, in the 1960s, ran a ramshackle boxing gym in Mexicali, on the Mexican side of the border, 20 miles south of Imperial.
The headquarters and dock sit in a more ramshackle part of town, tucked alongside a sewage-treatment plant and down the road from a brewery.
So it's only natural that Seth Meyers called out the "Fake News!" president for not only producing but distributing fake news throughout his ramshackle empire.
The French government was ill equipped to deal with this influx of 470,000 refugees, and put many of them in ramshackle camps on Mediterranean beaches.
With their new 2016 album, also called American Football, the band scrapped the ramshackle vibe that permeated throughout their classic debut for crisper, tighter songwriting.
Apart from a few gleaming modern malls, most of the commercial areas and residential neighborhoods are full of ramshackle buildings packed along narrow, bumpy roads.
On a ramshackle industrial block in southern Brooklyn, an Arabic call to prayer can be heard over the humming traffic of the nearby Belt Parkway.
Today, people living with HIV have better access to healthcare than those who don't, particularly the poor who rely on the ramshackle public health system.
The residents are mostly undocumented Vietnamese migrants, many of whom live in ramshackle houseboats on the Tonle Sap River, eking out a living farming fish.
" That summer, Gray was preparing to move into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in a neglected area of Cincinnati, which its residents called an "urban commune.
In his heyday with Pavement, he was known for his languid guitar work, his sunny hooks, the ramshackle way his songs seemed to hang together.
"The great wave of gentrification has yet to engulf us," he jokes in recent sequel T2, as he introduces the ramshackle pub he has inherited.
Yet, for all of Germany's fortune, Europe is mired in crisis and the EU is more ramshackle than ever since its founding six decades ago.
Teiji keeps a photo lab at the top of a ramshackle structure; there, he and Lucy make love and art and don't get out much.
There were no coffee shrubs by this ruin of a hut, but behind it a ramshackle fence of woven branches hid a large kraal. Rukorera!
These images and experiments fueled the imagination of Silicon Valley, even as the young tech entrepreneurs began converting their ramshackle means to far different ends.
There, he built a ramshackle three-room cottage on a hill that offered views of the Atlantic — but no electricity, roads or other urban infrastructure.
By the way, speaking of 17-Across … [Climbs up on ramshackle but still sturdy soapbox] Please be sure your voter registration is up-to-date.
With the Mexican government struggling to contain crime and violence, and ramshackle camps full of vulnerable migrants cropping up on the border, kidnappings have spiked.
It's only when pressed by the ramshackle gaggle of family members in the kitchen that she admits that, at 14, she got her first period.
The child's remains were found at a ramshackle New Mexico compound where authorities say they discovered the adults living in squalor with 11 starving children.
The vast majority of the country's 2170 million university students attend overcrowded, ramshackle public institutions, often looking at the elite campuses with envy and disdain.
The fate of Khan al-Ahmar has drawn international concern after Israel said it planned to raze the village, a ramshackle camp housing 180 residents.
"It's miserable here, we have tents that collapsed because of the intense wind," said Radwan Raad, standing in the snow at another ramshackle camp in Arsal.
Formerly known as the Tricycle, the theatre is fresh from a £5.5m ($7.15m) re-brand that ditched ramshackle homeliness in favour of slick, faintly corporate hipsterism.
Most adults in the ramshackle town of 100,000 don't have a regular job, according to a local labour union and without income from trading, tensions rise.
The dismantling of Libya's ramshackle nuclear programme (along with chemical weapons and efforts to make biological ones) started in December 2003 and was completed in 2004.
And the potential health risks are not a welcome topic in a country with ramshackle edifices masquerading as hospitals and poor public expenditure on basic facilities.
The glasses guy that's been chasing Baker finally catches up with him, by waiting outside his ramshackle home in the pouring rain until 2:30 a.m.
They fled a variety of poor and war-torn countries to find safety in Australia, trusting people-smugglers and their ramshackle operations to get them there.
Greenfield, a fine-art photographer turned filmmaker, has something else in mind, as telegraphed by the aerial shot of ramshackle Manila shanties that starts the movie.
Almost 100 a day arrive at this dusty, ramshackle camp perched at the edge of the English Channel, just 31 miles from Britain, their ultimate goal.
In another segment, a woman in the Ural mountains city of Izhevsk told Putin she had to live in unsanitary conditions in a ramshackle wooden house.
In Johnny Knoxville's latest film, Action Point, he plays D.C., the owner of a failing, ramshackle amusement park where the rides aren't exactly up to code.
Instead, she headed to a ramshackle jungle camp, where she cooks for miners with one hand and cares for her two young children with the other.
He writes ramshackle songs with loping tempos, and hangs behind the beat while drawling quizzical lyrics that search for wisdom, epiphanies or comedy in the mundane.
The money wasn't great, by European standards, but, before long, parents in Benin City were replacing ramshackle houses of mud and wood with walled-off properties.
Indian malls, evolving from ramshackle collections of stores to modern plazas, are seen as a gateway to brands that a growing middle class aspires to own.
But in a city where pedestrians and motorcyclists often face off over the use of ramshackle pavements, some steps are being taken to help ease congestion.
Warren said he was "surprised" to find what looked like two "teenage boys" when he went to the ramshackle building known as "The Barn" on Jan.
Most aboriginal residents live in the North End, an area dotted with ramshackle single-room-occupancy buildings and homemade missing-person signs taped to bar doors.
In 2012, Mr. Niami paid $28 million for the hilltop lot, which included a vacant 10,000-square-foot house that he said was in ramshackle condition.
Most adults in the ramshackle town of 100,000 don't have a regular job, according to a local labor union and without income from trading, tensions rise.
In the ramshackle elegance of the sickle-waving "Vive la Muerta" (1963), one thinks not only of the grim reaper, but of the legendary death rattle.
Scott's smoky, run-down retro-noir setting, full of ceiling fans, rusting clunky future-tech, and ramshackle Asian marketplaces, has been spliced into the DNA of tomorrow.
Joseph W. Stilwell expressed a grudging fondness for the damp, ramshackle capital deep in the country's southwest that would be his base for the next several years.
The cargo ship Yacu Kallpa rode impatiently at anchor off Iquitos, Peru, a ramshackle city on a bend in the broad, turbulent waters of the Amazon River.
Built in 1907, it was a charmingly ramshackle Edwardian stadium, with its covered roofs sagging slightly with age and its terraces sprouting the odd patch of weeds.
At the other end of the camp, Mohammad Tahir and his family of six sit outside their tarpaulin shelter, the last in a row of ramshackle shanties.
On the front lines of the battle for Aleppo But why is this tiny patch of land, and the ramshackle moderate rebels who hold it, so important?
"People will move to a more modern life than in those ramshackle, run-down, derelict houses," Serdar Budak, the head of the AKP in Diyarbakir, told Reuters.
Sazón: Sazón may look a bit ramshackle from the outside, but the South Austin Tex-Mex restaurant has been a breakfast taco and chilaquiles touchstone for years.
The story is strong enough for the show's scanty six episodes, and the performances terrific, but my favorite part is honestly the British countryside ramshackle cottage stuff.
Round-headed Syd, dressed still in his school uniform, stops by his grandfather's pleasantly ramshackle house and discovers that the old dude is nowhere to be found.
The city was a ramshackle, swampy place, notorious for its many alligator holes, until Spindletop hit, and it suddenly found itself the capital of an oil empire.
I found families picnicking, children playing and people lining up for coffee and tea from the ramshackle snack bar called Coffee Time (a coffee is 2100 yen).
An unrepentant Deist, he spent his final days penniless, in a ramshackle house in Greenwich Village, shouting away the clergymen who stopped by to save his soul.
He lived in a ramshackle house in central Oxford, but it might as well have been a cave in the mountains or a hut in the woods.
We were standing on the hill above Reykholt, where the town's geyser has been capped with a roughly finished housing of concrete, topped by a ramshackle smokestack.
But here, he ditches much of the ramshackle arrangements for his must lushly-orchestrated LP yet while still managing to keep his plainspoken warmth as a frontman.
But while the region gained newfound popularity and wealth, the wine lost something, like a magnificent ramshackle manse transformed into a McMansion, luxurious but no longer Mediterranean.
Once you're in the parking lot and looking straight at the oddball amusement park, wander to the right between the buildings where you'll reach a ramshackle beach.
ZHANGJIAJIE, China — Tang Chunwu set off from his room in a ramshackle inn just after sunrise, the beginning of Day 2000 in his search for his son.
A sense of home led William Christenberry in the 1960s to photograph ramshackle cabins and old stores with quaint, picturesque Coca-Cola signs in Hale County, Ala.
Among Republicans, though, the next steps are complicated by the president's ramshackle legislative strategy: The White House has effectively outsourced its agenda to its partners in Congress.
It was more a ramshackle warehouse than a residence, with metal walls and a patched-up wooden shed that sat on top as a makeshift upstairs room.
We are in the ramshackle room out of which Becker and his fleet of drivers operate their gypsy cab service, taking calls on a rotary pay phone.
The collection was called Galvanize, and the idea for the runway show was to evoke the ramshackle school that Oliver briefly attended as a youth in Trinidad.
Now, plans to replace the ramshackle workshops and decrepit homes with office blocks and high-rise apartments threaten the businesses that employ thousands of its 2503 million residents.
Eventually they crossed the Naf River, which separates Myanmar from Bangladesh, and found their way to the sprawling, ramshackle Kutupalong camp near the coastal town of Cox's Bazar.
As they settle into their ramshackle abode, Malcolm appears to be content to let the highhanded Anna run their lives, even as Lilly generally balks at her authority.
Interlagos organizers have carried out improvements to the ramshackle pit and paddock facilities but some of the changes sought by Ecclestone have not happened due to financial reasons.
But venture beyond these gentrified precincts and you'll find the same overgrown lots, deteriorating homes, and ramshackle shops familiar to many Americans from news coverage of the city.
Once described ad nauseum as "ramshackle", Tell Me How You Really Feel shows off the group's joint dexterity, and flaunts an aptitude for sweaty solos and tense codas.
The idea that formal ownership for ramshackle homes in slums can improve the economy by unlocking assets was pioneered by the Peruvian economist and author, Hernando de Soto.
One of its techniques is to make it more difficult for unskilled workers from the countryside to live there, such as by knocking down their cheap, ramshackle accommodation.
But he did meet with Mr. Shevchenko to discuss rebuilding Ivano-Frankivsk's ramshackle Soviet-era airport and spoke of the importance of lifting the area's dim economic prospects.
In 1999, after the birth of Tor and the death of Nels, the Stumo family bought a ramshackle eighteenth-century house on a farm, over the Massachusetts line.
Mr. Chasi, a heavyset auto mechanic, is a refugee from Willets Point, Queens, a ramshackle colony of auto repair, muffler, glass and tire shops next to Citi Field.
Many residents still patronize ramshackle "wet" markets — which sell fresh meats and produce — and sidewalk tea shops, where a full meal costs far less than a Starbucks latte.
Two American missionaries, serving at a ramshackle hospital in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, came down with the Ebola outbreak, the first Americans in two decades to contract the disease.
Using motion capture technology, the Melbourne musician's frequent collaborator, video artist Tristan Jalleh, creates a ramshackle, decaying structure that is stationary and mirrors Corin's non-traditional body movements.
Located between two Israeli settlements, the ramshackle village is home to more than 150 Palestinians Bedouins who raise sheep and goats, but Israel views this community as illegal.
By 21868, he and his wife, Gayle, had moved to California and bought a ramshackle property called Sweetwater Ranch, in the San Marcos Pass above Santa Barbara, Calif.
Nice Try released a self-titled tape back in 2016, full of songs of romantic and existential anxiety and a careful self-possession, alongside the winningly ramshackle instrumentation.
The general stood out to me when he ordered Marines to make a ramshackle wooden operations center "look better than Yosemite's visitor center," as one Marine put it.
At the summit of this ramshackle state stood the presidency, controlled by three elected presidents, one each for Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Muslims, who are known as Bosniaks.
Court documents said Mr. Almena collected "fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs" and other "ramshackle pieces" that served as the kindling for the fire.
Sensing they have momentum, Arab activists are leaving no stone unturned, no ramshackle community ignored, in a bid to play a decisive role in determining Israel's next government.
He's a man of the West, of feedlots and ramshackle cabins, of a silence punctuated only by the sound of crickets, but a man of words as well.
The Texas town we encounter here — centered on a ramshackle tavern, in Sara Brown's imaginative set — is steeped in toxic masculinity, gun culture and the demonization of outsiders.
New court documents revealed these and other details in the case against five adults who lived in squalor with 11 starving children in a ramshackle New Mexico compound.
The cast congregate in this oasis of allotments and ramshackle studios in east London to participate in Cardboard Citizens, a theatre project founded in 1991 by Mr Jackson.
In the ramshackle back-streets, still strewn with cooled lava rocks from the volcano Nyiragongo which rose behind the city, he would talk idealistic politics ten to the dozen.
She bought and renovated a ramshackle, Victorian house in the hills of St. Ann, with a postcard-perfect sea view, and patched the place up following each brutal hurricane.
Revolution in November of the previous year had swept away the King of Bavaria, installing a ramshackle regime headed by a messianic journalist of the radical left, Kurt Eisner.
The ramshackle settlement doesn't have an official name, and the Bengali-speaking migrants who live there refer to the place as "near Hebbal flyover," referring to a nearby overpass.
ABU QREINAT, Israel — A resident of a ramshackle sprawl of shacks and houses in the Negev Desert, Rabaa Al-Hawashleh is an unlikely worker in Israel's high-tech industry.
Around the turn of the century, county officials began discussing using eminent domain to seize the ramshackle structures, bulldoze them and throw up some upscale, mixed-use redevelopment concept.
The complex was built during the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, around 2,500 BCE, and is known informally as the "heap of stone" because of its ramshackle appearance.
Two deadly blasts in eastern coastal Jiangsu province killed 85 people and injured dozens more last month, putting China's rapidly expanding but sometimes ramshackle chemical industry under intense scrutiny.
These nonconventional building materials included recycled dry wood, such as fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs, wooden furniture, RV trailers, rugs, and other ramshackle pieces.
The $5 million facility - which boasts a school, dormitories including one for girls, and eight grass pitches - is a world apart from the many ramshackle academies across West Africa.
Twenty-four competitors drove their famously ramshackle but durable 2CVs 706 laps around a three-km circuit with the highest speed recorded at just over 23 mph (102 kph).
His studio, however—a ramshackle quonset hut—suggests a certain self-abnegation, particularly compared with the office that he built for Cusk, in an annex to the main house.
If an international architecture team had not restored the square's ramshackle wooden buildings, she said, she would be doing hard labor among her fields of corn, fruit and grains.
Human traffickers often prepare ramshackle boats for the crossing that are not designed to last the entire trip to Europe's southern shores, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has said.
The original film followed two eccentric, distant cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, mother and daughter — through their life in their ramshackle home.
Ground zero of the New York counterculture is a tough, chaotic, ramshackle place, where "freedom meant" (an incantatory refrain in one chapter) hunger, boredom, fear and, most fundamentally, poverty.
The alluringly ramshackle Maison Eureka is a 175-year-old Victorian-era home replete with uneven doors, a sagging roof and broad chunks of shingles absent like gap teeth.
Most residents of Brazil's informal settlements, or favelas, a key source of housing for the working poor, do not have formal deeds certifying that they own their ramshackle properties.
She led the group through ramshackle, makeshift shelters on Tung Chau Street, a homeless community on the edge of Sham Shui Po, first warning people not to take photos.
Prosecutors accused Warren of shielding the men from the U.S. Border Patrol and giving them directions while they stayed at the ramshackle wooden building known as "The Barn" Jan.
Robbins was a frequent resident of Camp 4, long the ramshackle home for climbers not far from the major sites that draw millions of visitors to Yosemite National Park.
After they married, they moved into the ramshackle site and began to transform it modestly, starting with the kitchen and later installing two bright bedrooms on the mezzanine above.
French authorities transferred more than 5,000 other migrants last week before bulldozers moved in to raze the sprawl of ramshackle shacks and tents nicknamed the "Jungle" by its inhabitants.
On the other side of Kiki, the owner of a ramshackle boat repair dock, marine-supplies store and snack bar said he was the last of a dying breed.
Anastasia Votintseva had complained to the Kremlin leader during a televised question-and-answer session this month that she had to live in unsanitary conditions in a ramshackle wooden house.
As covered in a recent article, samba schools in Rio de Janeiro are more like social clubs, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
It should feel a little ramshackle, and take on different tastes, to reflect that the community isn't just purely people from the UK. There should be lots of different influences.
He says he was penalised for having a house that was not ramshackle (one of the criteria used to evaluate recipients), even though it took him 15 years to build.
Viewed from the air, this ramshackle island of corrugated iron is surrounded by leafy green and azure blue dots: back yards and swimming pools belonging to the slum's wealthy neighbors.
Project leader Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists assembled the core of the bomb in the master bedroom of a ramshackle house a couple of miles from ground zero.
Once one starts splitting hairs and becoming immersed in genre history, you'll notice a lengthy (and often ramshackle) musical lineage dubbed "United States power metal" (known to fans as USPM).
These are Trump's five most consequential tweets -- the posts that, for better or worse, have come to define the opening days of his rambunctious and often ramshackle presidency. 1. Terrible!
Louis Scott In front of a ramshackle brown brick home, Scott pointed with an arm brace to the grassy patch where his daddy was found shoeless in his Saints jacket.
They were part of a neighborhood of ramshackle, low-rise apartment buildings, portions of which officials and developers had wanted to demolish, according to a report in The Beijing News.
In other fragments, we learn about her bumper sticker ("I BRAKE JUST LIKE A LITTLE GIRL"), the ramshackle house she rents in north Florida, and various local plants and snakes.
The tale of whether Heathrow, at 98 percent capacity, will get a third runway or whether ramshackle Gatwick, also near capacity, will get a second one has become almost mythic.
These fears are overblown, however, for one major reason that everyone seems to have overlooked: The Ukrainian military of today is very different from the ramshackle, demoralized force of 2014.
It's in presentations of familiar places that clash with our present understanding of them, as in the ramshackle chaos of Nassau in Black Flag age before the millionaires moved in.
An arena could be built in Willets Point, an assemblage of ramshackle auto repair shops that is in the process of being seized by the city and prepped for redevelopment.
The bar had decor befitting of an Irish pub, but its most definable trait was the brick wall covered in people's names, becoming a ramshackle wallpaper of its very own.
We spent the night in Punta Delgada, a ramshackle settlement in a saddle between bare hills, near the narrowest crossing between the Chilean mainland, El Continente, and Tierra del Fuego.
He took readers into the lives of a Brazilian boy, Flavio da Silva, and his family, who lived in the ramshackle Catacumba favela in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.
That final move earns him the attention of ramshackle DEA task force, led by our narrator Walt Breslin (Scoot McNairy), who's now made his way in front of the camera.
The T.D.I.C. characterizes the village, which opened in 133, as "state-of-the-art," an improvement on typical labor camps in the region, which tend to be sprawling and ramshackle.
In Akcakale on the Turkish-Syrian border, Ahmet Toremen, a construction worker, walks past the broken window-frames, burnt mattresses and bloodstains covering the bottom floor of his ramshackle house.
The search for the missing boy and his father ultimately led investigators to the ramshackle compound on the outskirts of Amalia, New Mexico, north of Taos near the Colorado border.
Both students and faculty were scavengers, cultivating the farm that was part of the institution and constantly searching for materials to work with or use to repair the ramshackle structures.
The shooting occurred on the night of January 26 at the Jungle, a ramshackle collection of hovels in a wooded stretch next to Interstate 5 south of the city's downtown.
As she tells a couple of gaping kids not long after crashing into their ramshackle house: If you're lucky enough to fall in love you have to be even stronger.
Fighting in his opponent's backyard in Sofia, Bulgaria, Latifi wrestled Ivanov into the ropes of the apparent ramshackle ring and said ring imploded under the weight of the two burly Europeans.
Police near Vancouver, Canada, pulled over an SUV driver this week for towing a sailboat precariously perched on a ramshackle trailer that had been customized with wood pallets and duct tape.
Nicola Coppola, the 76-year-old owner of a ramshackle motorbike and bicycle shop in Pomigliano, typified the approach of many in the south when asked who he would vote for.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland on Friday auctioned off scores of vintage albeit ramshackle Soviet-era cars abandoned by asylum-seekers who used them to cross the country's desolate Arctic border from Russia.
The man who helped turn a ramshackle but chic industry into a global force poached accounts mercilessly and often pitted his own firms against each other in the quest for clients.
Cizhong spreads out from the church like the bottom half of a Chagall painting: donkeys wander the stone streets; ramshackle houses squat along alleyways; vineyards and rice paddies frame the view.
After being assigned to be the handmaid of Commander Joseph Lawrence's (Bradley Whitford) ramshackle household, it's Emily's (Alexis Bledel) burden to discover just what makes her new Commander so utterly idiosyncratic.
Every day, almost 100 migrants arrive at a ramshackle camp known as "the jungle" in Calais, France, from which they hope to enter the tunnel that runs below the English Channel.
The wall, a joint project by Britain and France, is the latest attempt to address security concerns and local displeasure with a ramshackle camp for migrants at the English Channel port.
Where there was a ramshackle deck off the upstairs bedrooms that resulted in a mosquito den below, they installed a new deck above a screened porch with a pea-gravel floor.
And he let bike groups and other activists use his ramshackle space for meetings and as a gathering point for group rides (that were often monitored by dozens of police officers).
One of the groups Dal Forno fronted, Mole House, released a charmingly ramshackle self-titled tape on esteemed Minnesota DIY label Night People before the band eventually folded earlier this decade.
Perez, who lives in a ramshackle house made from breeze blocks and corrugated steel at the top of Petare, said a CLAP box provided her family with food for a week.
Along the stretch of road that spirals its way through the majestic, fog-capped Blue Ridge Mountains, each hairpin curve reveals a single-story motel, ramshackle gas station, or abandoned barbecue stand.
Two months later, Manson — who at the time referred to himself as "God" — was arrested after he was found hiding in a bathroom cabinet at a ramshackle ranch in Death Valley, California.
"We will have to hire an accountant - and get a computer," the thickset 52-year-old told Reuters, as a dozen ancient power looms clattered away in the ramshackle workshop next door.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Britain's ramshackle exit from the European Union, with two ministers quitting the government on Monday, could damage economic growth in the euro zone, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said.
One of the many pleasures of her Edgar Award-winning novel "Greenglass House" was the rich depiction of its eponymous setting: a ramshackle smuggler's hotel in the fictional seaside town of Nagspeake.
Many of Mr. Bongo's efforts have yet to trickle down to residents, particularly in Libreville, where dense treetops give way to flat tin roofs of ramshackle shacks that stretch across the horizon.
The list includes ramshackle old stadiums, scented and scarred with century-old reminders of English soccer's storied past, but also the gleaming cathedrals that testify to the Premier League's rich new present.
He lived in a concrete fortress that was once a prison built by the Soviets during their war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, part of a ramshackle base surrounded by razor wire.
Memo From Brussels BRUSSELS — Around the world, this city of great, if often ramshackle, charm has become Exhibit A in the case against immigration, particularly when it involves large numbers of Muslims.
Signs of that new prosperity can be seen at Auto City, a jumble of ramshackle, boxy buildings in Yancheng where Toyota, Ford and just about every other major brand compete for customers.
LONDON — In a backyard in Berlin, a ramshackle house that was once a haven for the civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is preparing for its third life — back in the United States.
Mr. Poroshenko, who is expected to seek re-election next year, has positioned himself as a leader who rebuilt Ukraine's ramshackle military and stood up to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
If the narrative can seem ramshackle, that's the nature of its subject: Why try to hold history together with map references when the really interesting events tend to happen in the margins?
Classic novels like "The Radetsky March," written by Joseph Roth in 1932, drove home lasting stereotypes of the empire as a decrepit, ramshackle realm unsuited to the modern era of nation-states.
The demolition is part of a nationwide program to close hundreds of tiny and often ramshackle dams and turbines and bring order to China's massive hydropower sector after years of unconstrained construction.
It took place at the ramshackle home of the Daa family, three generations crammed together in a patchwork of plastic and plywood perched on a slope overlooking the country's largest open dump.
Mr. Ismail, 20, is a second-generation Rohingya refugee, born in this ramshackle camp in Cox's Bazar on the southern tip of Bangladesh after his parents fled violence in their native Myanmar.
It was a homeless camp like so many that crop up along roads and ramshackle lots in some American cities, except that this one had been invited here by the university administration.
Myanmar's healthcare — particularly in far-flung areas — is plagued by ramshackle services, with hospitals lacking basic equipment because the military junta diverted funds away from services benefiting the general population to the army.
In the village of High Halden, Kent, a ramshackle 800-square-metre (8,600-square-foot) cowshed has prior approval to be turned into a single-storey timber-clad home with ceiling-high windows.
In June 2013, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services went to the ramshackle apartment where 8-year-old Gizzell Ford was living with her bedridden father, Andre, and his mother, Helen.
Photos of the cabin where Jake Patterson is accused of holding Closs prisoner show a ramshackle two-story property covered in snow and hidden by trees about 200 feet from the nearest road.
The somber, muted film still bears Linklater's ramshackle stamp and humanistic approach, but the grief and regret streaked throughout its framework is impossible to ignore and even harder not to be affected by.
The same was true of the Firefly movie, Serenity, which made the world of that show look more expensive and cinematic, to some extent working against the ramshackle charm of the TV version.
Pirate radio was raw and ramshackle, but it was where every MC honed their technique, where DJs learned their trade, and where producers sent their beats to be heard by a wider audience.
On the flip side, Trump's apparent unwillingness to spell-check himself before dashing off an opinion or sharing some bit of information speaks to his personality and highlights his administration's ramshackle communications process.
The duo found a home base in Glasslands Gallery, a ramshackle venue on the Williamsburg waterfront, but when the space closed, in 2014, they were already imagining building their own live-music headquarters.
Tables display orderly arrangements of fishing lures, ramshackle models of houses, a painted-tin butterfly, a stitched-leather polar bear, a flea-market painting of three shaggy dogs, talismanic rocks, and much more.
It is for Edir Dariux Teixeira, who is well known among the residents, having spent more than a third of her life trying to improve infrastructure and basic services in the ramshackle settlement.
Stanley A. Meyer has designed a pleasing set that includes an abundant amount of glitz and a large ramshackle bus that sits on a turntable at the center of stage in many scenes.
Vera's mother, Hildegard von Kamcke, fled East Prussia with her at the end of World War II. They find a bed — but not a home — on Ida Eckhoff's ramshackle farm in the Altland.
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (CNN)Traveling at speed in a ramshackle truck, a group of 44 Rohingya refugees make the last stage of their harrowing 10-day journey into Bangladesh after fleeing from Myanmar.
The mother and daughter, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, made headlines in the early 1970s when the police raided their ramshackle house, Grey Gardens, and found hoarded garbage, unsafe conditions and countless cats.
Next in its sights: San Jose, the Valley's largest city, where the internet search company recently announced plans to turn a ramshackle district of warehouses and car-repair shops into an urban centre.
Eventually, Boback hired Wallace and his wife, Amy, to clean up a house that he was flipping: a ramshackle place occupied by feral cats, which had left it in a toxic, stomach-turning condition.
The five suspects, who had established a communal living arrangement with their children in the high-desert compound, have been in custody since authorities raided their ramshackle homestead north of Taos 10 days ago.
Instead, since her films mostly made no money and she didn't care, she sold DVDs of them to passers-by from an improvised place beside her ramshackle pink atelier in rue Daguerre in Paris.
TAOS, N.M. – A father arrested at a ramshackle New Mexico compound where 11 hungry children were found living in filth was training youngsters to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents obtained Wednesday.
Although the landmass of the country's breakaway territories is a fraction of the total size of sovereign Ukraine, Moscow has transformed the rebels' ramshackle administrations into regimes that have the semblance of functioning governments.
In ramshackle shelters and bus terminals, reporters at the southern border record the stories of undocumented immigrants crossing into the United States, hearing their plans to start new lives in every corner of America.
A seafront sprawl 2300 miles (24 km) north of Naples, the ramshackle town began life in the Etruscan age - before the Roman empire - and was a popular summer playground for Neapolitans during the 2300s.
The massive triptych depicts a black woman strenuously hammering together boards in the ramshackle construction of what may be an ark, or perhaps a wall, only it's built upon piles of desperate, rotting bodies.
Federal prosecutors argued that Warren was part of a conspiracy to illegally transport and conceal the two men at a ramshackle building used by activists who provide water, food and first aid to migrants.
But, for me at least, Plan 9 overcomes every ramshackle special effect and hammy line reading by virtue of Wood's passion for cinema and fervent belief that its magic will glaze over any flaws.
Some were bustling on a recent morning through the cramped hallways of My Friend's Place, a two-story ramshackle storefront right up against the edge of the freeway, its entrance hidden off an alley.
He was interred in a ramshackle cemetery in Pinto, Utah (population fewer than a dozen), reachable only by washboard-rough dirt roads, where rattlesnakes, jackrabbits and lizards seek shade under sagebrush and juniper trees.
A deadly fire in a hamlet of ramshackle dwellings on the capital's southern fringes last month prompted a fire safety blitz by the authorities, forcing thousands of the workers out of homes and businesses.
The ramshackle, sometimes squalid, occasionally madcap life in the studio where O-Ei apprentices to her father contrasts with the staid, cautious domesticity of the home where O-Ei's enchanting, blind younger sister lives.
This week, CNN found Champ and Key living with a friend in a ramshackle RV park and explained how a number of treatment centers had offered to help her get into a rehab program.
With its brown-brick facade and its ramshackle charm, Crystal Palace's home of 92 years feels like the antidote to the Premier League's corporate behemoths: Old Trafford, the Etihad, the Emirates and the like.
If the flat dulcet tones of Jackie Evancho aren't doing it for you today, allow us to suggest LA project Thurst's ramshackle debut, Cut to the Chafe, to soundtrack this, uh, historic inauguration day.
LONDON — When the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge opened late last month in New York State — a $4 billion structure spanning the Hudson River that replaced the ramshackle Tappan Zee Bridge — New Yorkers were triumphant.
In Christmas 1920, after 15 months of political indecision, the exasperated Italian government finally retook the city, a feat made much easier by the fact that d'Annunzio's ramshackle government was already imploding from within.
"He comes across as this nice, likable family guy," said Brian Freeman, a California lawyer who plunked down about $5003,2500 for a ramshackle home that was in such bad shape he was issued fines.
Or does he sit atop a state that is, in fact, shockingly ramshackle, a system driven more by the capricious and often venal calculations of competing bureaucracies and interest groups than by Kremlin diktats?
Seven people in the Greek province of Thessaly have been arrested for allegedly trying to pass off sunflower oil as olive oil, the Associated Press reports, and it wasn't some ramshackle, backwoods operation either.
And when Carolina moves into the ramshackle tiny house they share above the lights of Coney Island, he dotes on her, pays for her summer school, and defends her to his loutish fishing buddies.
When they first formed in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 2004, their ramshackle DIY approach to creating electronic music set them apart from their indie rock contemporaries, who used traditional instruments and straightforward song structures.
Men who were eager to prove themselves in battle grew demoralized marking time on bases that gave them ramshackle housing and confined them to Jim Crow buses and even "colored only" sections of movie theaters.
Instead of preserving the edifice, the building's new owners allowed what had once been a bright, shining tower of Tehran's skyline to turn into a ramshackle space, dwarfed and supplanted by thousands of new skyscrapers.
In the dusty, ramshackle town of San Pedro, filled with zipping golf carts and barhopping tourists, a $50 million resort named Alaia, branded by Marriott's Autograph Collection Hotels, is rising six stories above the beach.
Susana Martinez and other state Republicans are criticizing a judge&aposs decision to allow the release of defendants accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound where authorities found the remains of a boy.
One wall segment features deep-blue steel and another has a brick facade, standing in sharp contrast to the area's existing border fence, a ramshackle structure of corrugated steel left over from the Vietnam War.
By the sixth or seventh listen—at just under two minutes, its lean run time makes for easy replay—it becomes clear that "Old Town Road" is a ramshackle of genre, history, and generational bias.
He started in the wildcat mines as a teenager in the area around Crepurizao — a ramshackle frontier town of 5,000 with a dirt landing strip that is a gateway for informal mining in the region.
Andrew Orchard lives near the northeastern coast of Tasmania, in the same ramshackle farmhouse that his great-grandparents, the first generation of his English family to be born on the Australian island, built in 1906.
It was a far cry from the ramshackle homespun recording that came from University of Illinois students: the band members were actually well-versed in their instruments and the arrangements felt more meticulously-put together.
The ramshackle tree's branches are filled with photographs and mementos that remind us that this musical is about the history and intimate lives of its characters rather than a heated, political dissection of transgender identity.
"Unlike their brief and slightly stiff Toronto debut seven months earlier opening for Doves, the Strokes played a ramshackle, yet feverish set that included their then-controversial, post-220/22017 tune "New York City Cops.
The fact that a real human had made and assembled this (often ramshackle) product, as opposed to a huge automated machine, really made me connect with both the object and the music much more deeply.
In the garish weirdness of the desert, where beaming hippies dotted the horizon, banging on drums and piling up ramshackle homes from straw bales and tires, it seemed possible to find another sense of myself.
The country's years of economic suffering have created conditions for the disease to spread: Large numbers of people have moved to the cities to look for work and live in ramshackle housing without running water.
After the man collapsed on June 1 on the track grounds beside the ramshackle employee housing run by the New York Racing Association, and died less than a week later, state health officials suspected hantavirus.
When Byers loses her marbles in her ramshackle home, or hacks Christmas lights into a communication device, Ryder turns a character who could be needy or shrieky into someone whose obsessive intensity is entirely sympathetic.
They're almost certainly getting a legitimate 10,000-plus, barring disaster or a rash of no shows, neither of which are likely but both of which are certainly possible in the ramshackle traveling circus of pro wrestling.
In a few days, the French government will begin dismantling the filthy, ramshackle camp outside Calais that has become a searing symbol of Europe's struggle to respond to an influx of migrants fleeing war and poverty.
Danielle Boudreaux, an acquaintance of Almena for several years, said she got in touch with the family of Micah Allison in 2015, because she was concerned about the couple's three children living in the ramshackle warehouse.
Indian malls, which are evolving from ramshackle collections of stores to modern plazas complete with air conditioning and family entertainment centers, are seen as a gateway to brands that a growing middle class aspires to own.
French authorities for days have threatened to plow into the migrant camps in the seaside port town of Calais and level any of the hundreds of ramshackle homes that sat too near the busy nearby motorway.
Paradoxically, Ms. Del Deo's last big battle pitted her and other residents of more than a dozen ramshackle oceanfront dune shacks against the National Park Service, which runs the seashore she fought so hard to protect.
Property had a shooting range and 'escape tunnel' Deputies said the ramshackle dwelling seemed to be "built underground," including the partially buried camper trailer, Hogrefe wrote in a separate affidavit for a search warrant last week.
British and Chinese engineers are helping prepare the island to receive refugees before the onset of monsoon rains, which could bring disastrous flooding to ramshackle camps further south that now teem with about 26 million Rohingya.
"He's not going to get any better," said the nurse, Jill Barton, who came for the Great Pyramids of Giza in 2013 but stayed to help battered workhorses in Nazlet el-Samman, a ramshackle slum nearby.
Once recreational vehicles peel off the dirt road for Lake Pleasant Regional Park, ramshackle homesteads are the only signs of civilization until the resort's sultan-worthy allée of mature date palms appears like a cartoon mirage.
It was wine that enticed him, and now, in a ramshackle two-story structure in Mirveti, about 290 miles inland from the sparkle of Batumi, he makes wine out of grapes sourced from across the country.
Thandazile Soni, the first Rafiki in Chicago, now lives in a wooden shack on a former sugar cane field southwest of Durban, down a rutted dirt path that descends as the houses become ever more ramshackle.
Accessible only by foot on a steep, winding pathway camouflaged by thick vegetation, the ramshackle shop owned by I. Launa has a tattered tarpaulin roof, a work table and several machines for cutting and shaping steel.
" On the Pine Ridge Reservation, the site of the killings at Wounded Knee is marked by a ramshackle sign; a piece of wood bearing the word "massacre" is nailed over the original description, which was "battle.
Sitting outside his ramshackle brick home, Mr. Krova said selling his catch, without regard to the species' protected status, had allowed him, a man with a fourth-grade education, to pay for his children's university attendance.
Willets Point's current state of disarray invites a temptation to focus solely on the aesthetics of the physical place — ramshackle buildings, torn-up streets, stripped cars, towers of scrap — as many have done over the years.
First comes the plot: no longer some local difficulty but a ramshackle tale involving the putative murder of Kate Moss—little more than an excuse, it turns out, for a march-past of middle-ranking celebrities.
Less than one week after a blaze ripped through a ramshackle warehouse known as the Ghost Ship, this shocked city is grappling with an array of questions about what precisely happened, many of them deeply troubling.
Ages ago, when I was discussing the profoundly disappointing Total War: Rome 2 with some colleagues on Three Moves Ahead, I argued that Creative Assembly's swollen, ramshackle epic was bad in ways that were fundamentally unfixable.
On September 20, during his monologue, Kimmel took a breath in the middle of trying to explain the ramshackle Graham-Cassidy health care bill currently up for consideration in the Senate, and looked out at his audience.
Chiba's 21 film Shitamachi delicately captures the singular post-World War II efforts of working-class individuals to survive in an economically sparse, ramshackle milieu still reconciling itself with the memory of its deceased, disappeared, and distant.
SISAULI, India (Reuters) - India's next central bank governor could learn a lot about stubbornly high prices in rural areas by driving down a ramshackle road in Uttar Pradesh state to talk to small farmers like Dharmendra Malik.
The hukou system makes it difficult for many migrants in the biggest cities to secure places for their children in state-run schools, so they send them to ramshackle private ones that are often forced to close.
Of course he would be unable to stop, and of course a ramshackle four-team minor league on the least populous of Japan's four major islands would be where he'd go to pick it all up again.
This makes it all the more frightening when her kids are in danger, which they are pretty much all the time, whether they're being lured into a virtual-reality game or just wandering around their ramshackle house.
It's set in a dystopian future — a surreal world of sun-scorched savagery, where mainstream society's convicts and rejects (the "Bad Batch" of humans) build their own ramshackle mini-civilizations in the barren desert south of Texas.
Most days, he works in his home office, a ramshackle room teeming with books and notebooks full of his sketches and writing, in a second floor rent-controlled apartment where he's lived for more than 30 years.
She married a carpenter she had met at a local hangout, and soon afterward they bought a ramshackle circa 24 one-bedroom fisherman's cottage beside a pond in Manset, a mile from the Big House, for $109,000.
Sports of The Times RIO DE JANEIRO — A thousand metaphysical miles from the well-heeled Olympic zone, a couple of activists and I entered the Favela do Mandela, a ramshackle collection of brick-and-tar-paper buildings.
In the early 3752s, he and his dutiful second wife, Emma, raised his three children in ramshackle buildings in Dublin, N.H. Fervent believers in the benefits of fresh air, they let snow drift into their sleeping cabins.
In the dead of night, often accompanied by television cameras, officers would batter down the doors of ramshackle houses in marginalized communities and then arrest and put on display a cluster of tattooed and half-naked men.
With decades-old land disputes still unresolved, many have chosen to remain in unzoned, ramshackle villages and encampments lacking basic services, reluctant to move into the towns that quickly acquired a reputation for drug abuse and delinquency.
Ernst Zündel, who from a ramshackle Victorian house in central Toronto churned out books, posters, audiotapes and memorabilia denying the Holocaust and spreading neo-Nazi messages worldwide, died on Saturday at his home in Bad Wildbad, Germany.
The court documents filed by the district attorney's office on Monday said Mr. Almena collected "fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs" and other "ramshackle pieces" that served as the kindling for the fire.
In 2015, he created several artworks at a ramshackle migrant camp in Calais, France, known as the Jungle, where thousands of people from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere lived while trying to find a way to reach Britain.
Particularly during the middle decades of the 20th century, both parties in Congress encompassed ramshackle coalitions of diverse views that compelled Democratic liberals and Republican conservatives to uneasily coexist with a large moderate block on each side.
Jean Noel Faye, 38, who hawks women's shoes at a ramshackle outdoor market in Dakar, said he had little sympathy for the well-to-do Senegalese merchants who complain about the Chinese and their rock-bottom prices.
I have marveled at a giddy 3-year-old unaware of the enormity that her leg had been lost to shrapnel and at two teenage girls in a ramshackle school who said they wanted to study astrophysics.
Suto Orizari district, a ramshackle settlement of more than 20,000 people, in the capital Skopje is among a handful of Roma-majority municipalities in the world and one of the few places where Romanes is an official language.
Del Curto is probably best known for his photographs of vernacular artists, such as Richard Greaves and his ramshackle architectural environment built from disassembled barns in rural Quebec, and the home of clay artist Stanislaw Zagajewski in Poland.
Chernousovo, Russia (Reuters) - In the remote village of Chernousovo, retired mechanic Mikhail Krasinets tends to more than 300 ramshackle, Soviet-era cars, remnants of a once vibrant auto industry that crumbled with the fall of the Soviet Union.
New Mexico court officials say a judge has received threats of violence after a ruling that allows the release of defendants accused of child abuse in connection with a raid on a ramshackle compound near the Colorado border.
British and Chinese engineers are helping prepare the island to receive refugees before the onset of monsoon rains in April, which could bring disastrous flooding to ramshackle camps further south that now teem with about 1 million Rohingya.
A missing Georgia boy who had been taken by his dad last year died on a remote, ramshackle New Mexico compound during a "religious ritual" meant to free his body from demons, prosecutors argued in court on Monday.
They live in caves, ramshackle houses and other makeshift dwellings, he added, standing in a sandbagged emplacement surrounded by a coil of barbed wire, and saying that in winter a meter or more of snow covers the hills.
Visible on the hills on the other side of a barren, rock-strewn valley, Kfar Adumim's white-washed apartment blocks and tree-lined roads lie in stark contrast to the ramshackle wood and tin huts of the Bedouins.
Her most likely successor, given the extent of rabid pro-Brexit sentiment among Tories, is Boris Johnson, the unscrupulous, ramshackle, flip-flopping, dissembling former foreign secretary, whose uncertain relationship with the truth and unwavering narcissism resemble Donald Trump's.
" Right: "Our cottage is not sophisticated — it's ramshackle — and I love to fill it with things that could be considered slightly kitsch, like these English Toby jugs, which I only collect in shades of camel, ecru and black.
Fearing that the Feather King who comes to collect the living will come for his son, Johan's father takes the boy to sea, where they live on a ramshackle boat and Johan launches bottles bearing messages for his mother.
The Garifuna village of Triunfo de la Cruz about 250 km (150 miles) west of Vallecito is characterized by ramshackle rows of pastel-colored clapboard houses that spill onto the white sand of Tela Bay, a burgeoning ecotourism hotspot.
Sitting barefoot on a log, a farmer surveys more than 200 pounds of coca leaves drying out in front of his ramshackle lean-to here in the rainforest of the Chapare region, the muggy heart of Bolivia's coca country.
BEIJING (Reuters) - In Xinjiancun, a ramshackle village of migrant workers on the far southern fringe of Beijing, demolition machinery tears into buildings as residents drag out the last of their belongings under the gaze of police and security staff.
A pair of yuppies (she's a therapist, he's a journalist) from the bluest of blue states move to a ramshackle farm in the Cornhusker state, and nobody mentions whether America's great or needs to be made that way again?
Leonardo Coccorante's "Architectural Capricci, a pair" (1730) is a landscape that depicts a set of ruins; while ramshackle, they still look glorious, and it helps that the painting is so large I felt that I could walk into it.
Bulldozers are flattening the sprawl of ramshackle huts and tents which had been home to about 6,000 refugees and migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa hoping to cross the English Channel and start new lives in Britain.
He introduced me to Mr. Dorfman and other settlers during a recent visit to Yishuv Hadaat, which is little more than a collection of mobile homes, a ramshackle synagogue and some playground equipment on the crest of a hill.
Tension is provided by the question of which nubile, available Kiwi woman — there is a surprising number of them for a ramshackle small town — will catch George's eye, and how his daughter, Shay (an excellent Melina Vidler), will react.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, a typical gathering of leftists consisted of seven weirdos meeting in a ramshackle space, often fighting ancient battles about whether the USSR was a failed state capitalist experiment or a degenerated workers' state.
In any but a dozen or so well-established baseball countries, Olympic status could make the difference between having well-funded local organizations able to attract children to the sport with grassroots programs, and ramshackle outfits on life support.
"It's the conditions here that push them to do this," Mbainar said, looking at the ramshackle huts made of tree stumps and bamboo shoots, tied together with rotting strips of fabric, and covered with a patchwork of tarpaulin sacks.
BEIJING (Reuters) - In the shadow of one of China's top cancer hospitals in Beijing, a catacomb-like network of ramshackle brick buildings has become a home-from-home for hundreds of cancer patients and their families waiting for treatment.
Nearly all Americans, including those in cities, face a dire choice: spend thousands of dollars a year owning a car and sitting in traffic, or sacrifice hours every day on ramshackle public transit getting where they need to go.
A typical Malaysian kopitiam is a ramshackle hangout where people drop in to read the morning paper, grab breakfast, catch up on neighborhood gossip and do all the other things that classically accompany a cup of tea or coffee.
Taken together, all these components make for a remarkably lucid definition of identity, whether personal, ethnic or national, Mr. Prina's or his father's: It's a ramshackle series of accidents and non sequiturs that strike you, somehow, with unitary force.
The answer, in a film like "Meyerowitz," is an ad hoc, ramshackle family that comes to terms with its own chaotic making, as husbands and wives and children come in and out of the picture but never really leave.
The romance is enabled by the real estate: a vast, ramshackle stone house where Elio spends school vacations with his intellectual parents, eating leisurely meals on the terrace, surrounded by fruit trees and listening to his Walkman (it's 1983).
In one, Daniel drifts into the orbit of an antique dealer named Lezlie, a Pan-like anarchist, who invites anyone who is not a gentrifying yuppie—the class he regards as ruining Paulie—to party at his ramshackle house.
The two men on trial were Derick Almena, 49, the master tenant and leaseholder at the Ghost Ship warehouse, and Max Harris, 103, described by prosecutors as Mr. Almena's right-hand in managing the warehouse turned ramshackle artist collective.
Even in the dim light of a ramshackle hotel ballroom (haunted, according to legend), it was hard to miss a full contingent of buyers from Barneys New York, whose first Area delivery will arrive in May, beaming front row.
Hers is a dilemma repeated over and over for many of the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in ramshackle huts across this unsteady landscape: With the long-dreaded monsoon season now upon them, they have run out of places to run.
When we first meet Sultan, he is a broken man - working in a ramshackle government office, riding a rickety bike and waiting for a glimpse of his lady love Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), who looks through him every time she sees him.
The Jiménez family home is a ramshackle one-room hut; the waterproof screens that protect it during the rainy season are partly made of repurposed political banners from past election campaigns, including some from Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
But it is getting harder for people from the countryside to settle in megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai, owing to measures such as the demolition of ramshackle housing where many of them live and stricter qualifications for local hukou.
OFF THE coast of Guyana, 160km beyond the ramshackle, rainbow-coloured roofs and the sea wall meant to protect the low-lying capital, past the mud flats and into the deep, churning Atlantic, a vast drilling vessel sits almost perfectly still.
You suggest that Britain may be on the brink of a constitutional crisis, and that the country's "ramshackle, easily amended constitution is vulnerable to the radicalised politics produced by three years rowing about Brexit" ("The next to blow", June 1st).
But Dove loves both her ramshackle community and her neighbors — the kind of folks who buy $3,000 TVs on credit and toss their old ones in the front yard — and serving as chief of police is proof of her loyalty.
State prosecutors say children who were found at a ramshackle New Mexico compound were trained to use firearms and learned other tactical techniques as they prepared to get rid of teachers, law enforcement and other institutions that were considered corrupt.
Not far from Trump's speech in an ornate convention center, an unemployed man in a ramshackle bazaar surmised that Trump had come to the cradle of Islam not to ask for help but to apologize for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.
But the reality is more like a developer's nightmare, thanks to hundreds of people living there who have refused to budge from their ramshackle homes for nearly 3803 years as the local authority sought to clear the land for new construction.
Bulldozers are flattening the sprawl of ramshackle huts and tents in northern France which had been home to 6,000 refugees and migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa hoping to cross the English Channel and start new lives in Britain.
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But his summer gig unexpectedly turned into a 49-day nightmare, after a wind storm sent his ramshackle raft out into the open ocean, leaving him stranded with a walkie-talkie, a bible, and a few fishing supplies, the Guardian reports.
On that record, Laid Back, he restrained his fiery singing and reinvented himself as a southern-rock Billie Holiday, backed by a ramshackle wall of sound consisting of him and whoever happened to be in the studio at the time.
There are good reasons to worry about Mr. Trump's personal connections to the Putin regime (or to oligarchs close to that regime, which is effectively the same thing.) How crucial has Russian money been in sustaining Mr. Trump's ramshackle business empire?
Diamond riffs on a diner in a tidy wooden building you can eat in today — the Metro, on 100th and Broadway — that was once the ramshackle residence of one of the original members of the group, John Berry, and his father.
The Spice Girls were anarchic and ramshackle and loud as fuck, and they completely re-defined pop culture at a time when it was overrun by Britpop lads like Oasis and Blur, or boy bands like Take That and East 17.
"Peace won't look any different to war here," said one indigenous community leader in his ramshackle office overlooking the river, where a group of young children were bathing in the filthy water, their laughter in stark contrast to the conversation inside.
Every four years the media decides at some point that America's ramshackle and somewhat accidental system of presidential primaries is going to fail, and the nomination will be decided by actual bargaining among delegates at the national convention over the summer.
Obtaining a 48-hour pass from her collective, Zan joins Enn for a weekend of working-class wandering and a ramshackle punk-rock concert — a scene whose rowdy, pile-driving vitality only spotlights the sagginess of the movie around it.
His identical twin brother, Drew, who is as handsome if not quite as hair-sprayed, and favors suits and ties over Timberlands, opted for a ramshackle heap that was larger and had better access to some of the island's canals.
Zerif is one of roughly 6,000 who lived in the squalor of the ramshackle camp near the gritty port town on France's northeastern coast from where Britain is almost visible across the sea and can be reached by ferry or tunnel.
The new watchdog - the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority - would directly regulate auditors, be forward looking and draw a line under a creaky, leaky, ramshackle and "excessively consensual" FRC perceived to be too close to the Big Four, Kingman said.
Risk of further action If the attacks in Iraq are indeed the full scope of Iran's response, they carry another risk: That the Trump administration thinks its ramshackle performance over the past week has paid off, and Iran has been vanquished.
It is in the F.A. Cup's third round that the lesser lights have the chance to bloody the noses of the great and the good, when the coddled elite come unstuck in airless, ramshackle stadiums and on haphazard, mud-ridden fields.
These include Hatice (Hazar Erguclu), the former girlfriend of a friend of Sinan's he later goads into a fistfight; a prominent author Sinan buttonholes in a bookstore; and, at greatest length, a pair of clergymen he encounters near Idris's ramshackle farmhouse.
In those years, I was hellbent on finding a partner to share that ramshackle Victorian with me, to fill its rooms with the life I thought I'd bought with my nest egg (plus a pair of pre-Great Recession mortgages).
TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The primary suspect charged in the abuse of 11 youths found malnourished at a ramshackle compound in New Mexico was training the children with firearms to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents filed in the case on Wednesday.
Their seventh and latest album, The Weather, is a far cry from the scraggly, ramshackle textures of their earliest work—which was more like an unhinged garage-rock soundtrack to a rough LSD trip, and might now only be treasured by dedicated cratediggers.
At several points, the film highlights the income disparity between old and new Europe, once by letting the camera pan from where Ines stands on a swanky balcony making a phone call to her view of the ramshackle housing just over the wall.
TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - A camping trailer at the New Mexico compound where five people were charged with child abuse earlier this month had been stolen from an Alabama farmer and towed to the ramshackle settlement north of Taos, police said on Friday.
Kriterion, founded by students in Amsterdam after World War Two and adopted in post-conflict cities such as Sarajevo, was set up in 2011 in Liberia, a country with few filmmakers where people tend to watch movies in ramshackle bars and restaurants.
Their ramshackle brand of garage pop sounds like it was shaped by The Kinks, The Strokes, and FIDLAR, offering fleeting kicks and cheap fun, which is obviously the best kind of fun (and currently the only kind of fun if you're under 35).
"It is a myth that a single person controls this country," he said, adding that his new government would prove its pro-Western credentials by taking "real action" to reform a ramshackle justice system and other branches of the state gnawed by corruption.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday postponed hearings for five suspects from a ramshackle New Mexico compound where a toddler's body was found in order to give federal attorneys more time to prepare their defense in the racially-charged case.
Small groups of masked protesters then fled to the Central business district, through streets lined with banks and top-end jewellery and fashion stores, setting light to ramshackle street barricades and hurling petrol bombs as riot police and water cannon trucks closed in.
On the very first page of HELL FIRE (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24), a young mother and her 4-year-old son lie dead of multiple stab wounds in the ramshackle little trailer in the Norwegian woods where they had spent the night.
In it, Mr. Maleh's crew travels around the country interviewing ordinary Syrians, who discuss the poverty and corruption that had resulted in an exodus from rural Syria to Damascus, with job seekers and their families settling in ramshackle housing on the city's outskirts.
The ramshackle camp at Calais houses thousands of migrants and refugees attempting to make it to Britain, which bars most of them on the basis of EU rules requiring them to seek asylum in the first European country they set foot in.
Set on a 375-foot-high hill of rubble in the western part of Berlin, the Cold War relics of Teufelsberg make up a mishmash of large satellite dishes and ramshackle domed towers, many of which are coated in eye-pleasing street art.
The kinship between the two restaurants is easy to see at the new Rochelle Canteen — in the calculated plainness of its mostly white, somewhat ramshackle décor, and in the language employed on the ever-changing menu, whose terseness cannot mask the food's appeal.
This endearingly ramshackle refuge — the name means "the pier" in Italian — is on the northern island of Refshaleoen, a long bike (or quick ferry) ride from the center in a former industrial area now colonized by fine-dining establishments and moored houseboats.
Comprised of two flats that had been converted into a single room via knocking down a wall, it was unconventional, ramshackle, and capable of attracting some of the biggest names of the day—everyone from the Happy Mondays to the Stone Roses visited.
The worker, whose name has not been released, was found earlier this month collapsed outside the ramshackle employee barracks, tucked between the horse barns and exercise pens where he and scores of other grooms, hot walkers and riders live, state health officials said.
In addition to the two original houses and a ramshackle barn, the property now consists of a sauna, yurt, outdoor kitchen, performance stage, composting-toilet outhouse and elaborate, brightly-painted gazebo that the 20 residents, who built everything themselves, call the T-Whale.
The Jungle, a ramshackle, overcrowded shanty town, came to symbolize Europe's difficulty in dealing with record inflows of migrants from impoverished and wartorn regions of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, many of them bent on crossing the sea from Calais to Britain.
Many people fled rural areas to Maiduguri, which has doubled in size as displaced Nigerians have crowded into relatives' homes or settled into crumbling buildings, bus stations, schoolyards and the thousands of ramshackle thatched huts that dot the edges of the city.
Record: 6-7Last week: 15thWeek 14 result: Beat the Giants, 23-17Week 15 opponent: at Washington RedskinsOne thing to know: Carson Wentz and a ramshackle group of receivers led the Eagles back from a 17-3 deficit against the Giants in Week 14.
The filthy, ramshackle camp has become a symbol of Europe's struggle to respond to an influx of migrants fleeing war and poverty and is home to more than 6,000 people dreaming of coming to Britain, just 143 miles (33 km) across the English Channel.
Quezon City, the Philippines (CNN)It's monsoon season in the Philippines and in a ramshackle neighborhood in Quezon City, near Manila, a sudden downpour has left gray puddles in the rutted streets and fat, dirty drops of rainwater steadily dripping from corrugated metal roofs.
There he was, in the ramshackle pulse of LCD's synthesizers; again, in the unapologetic desire of Gallant's wail; you could hear him in the genre-smashing of 2manydjs, and see him in the narrative fluidity and spectacle of just about every performance at Coachella.
The film's black and white images echo such iconic visions of poverty as Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) — ramshackle farm interiors, but here cropped or blurred to protect workers' identities and synchronized with spoken accounts of abuse.
For about five days each month, the 16-year-old is banished to a hut -- a windowless, ramshackle shed with a small door and poor sanitation and ventilation -- and is forbidden from touching other people, cattle, any fruits and vegetables that are growing, even books.
In Cape Town, the shanty towns of Khayelitsha stretch for miles, a grim brown sea of ramshackle wood and iron shacks that confront visitors arriving at the airport but are out of view of the city's glass towers or the leafy suburbs on nearby hills.
Meanwhile the convention was also a showcase for Trump's unique political style, which is basically ramshackle and improvised, and which treats the controversies that most politicians fear as part of the fun, part of the show, a reason for voters and viewers to tune in.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Days after capturing Jerusalem's Old City in a 1967 war, Israel razed the Moroccan Quarter, a ramshackle neighborhood of Palestinian homes in front of the Western Wall, aiming to create an open space for Jews to pray at one of their holiest sites.
"Umbria is small, so from ancient times, each area had its own way of calling things, and many of them are still alive," said Diego Mencaroni, who manages an international artists' retreat, Civitella Ranieri, in a grand and ramshackle 15th-century castle in Umbertide.
Essentially a photograph of a Brazilian slum (its identity suggested by media mogul Marinho's name in the title), the image has been altered to include an architecturally sound yet culturally faithful remake of one of the ramshackle dwellings that make up the remaining streetscape.
BARRED FROM travelling beyond the confines of their over-crowded, ramshackle camps on a sliver of land in Bangladesh's border district of Cox's Bazar, about 1m Rohingya refugees have hitherto had to rely on mobile phones as virtually their sole link to the outside world.
But people have left their traces: in the otherworldly monumentality of a nuclear plant; in the ramshackle ruins of Bennett College in the Hudson Valley, an acid trip of melting architecture; in a youthful scrawl at the corner of a blackboard — Livie was here.
On Monday, French authorities began clearing the sprawling, ramshackle camp outside the port town of Calais, in preparation for the demolition of the shanty-town that has become a symbol of Europe's struggle to respond to an influx of migrants fleeing war and poverty.
Crazy rich people doing, building and saying mad, impulsive, sometimes beautiful and often ridiculous things: traveling cross-country for séances; wearing leather pajamas while breakfasting next to a corpse; creating fantastical gardens and grand interpretive dance or poetry entertainments at lavish or ramshackle country homes.
Heavy on distortion and on long, swirling tangents, the record recalls an ostentatious era of weirdness in pop music—a time when artists like George Clinton and Sly Stone assembled large, ramshackle groups of collaborators and exploded previous notions of race and sexual identity.
These jittery, often dissonant tracks, like the Island of Dr. Moreau-influenced "Jocko Homo," would highlight the band's central dichotomy of high and low culture, laden with ramshackle, sci-fi synths, primitive, gritty guitar work, and the complex philosophy at the heart of the project.
Tony Hardy, Abbeville's police chief, pulled out of an interview with The Economist; although most of the accused come from his town—from a neighbourhood where lawns and pretty porches give way to trailer homes and ramshackle yards—a sergeant said Louisiana's state police had prime responsibility.
"How many more innocent people have to be killed before they bring those two officers to justice?" asked Quenton Williams, who described his own struggles with the court system as visitors took photos and laid flowers in front of the ramshackle convenience store where Sterling was killed.
At the Momo supermarket in the capital, Kinshasa, a ramshackle city of 12m people, you will find tin pans from Pakistan, toilet paper from Turkey, sandals from Thailand and glass tumblers from Brazil: but virtually nothing from Congo itself apart from some of the chicken and beer.
Strange Success Out in the Texas countryside near Austin, down a narrow road not far from the legendary Salt Lick BBQ restaurant, next door to a ramshackle spread guarded by a German shepherd, stands a forge making what may be the best swords in the world.
I think that for a lot of people, what sticks in their minds about Call Me by Your Name is the sensuousness with which it is shot and its almost fantasy-like setting in a ramshackle villa in Italy — essentially, the beauty and emotion of the film.
The world will have Facebook for a long time to come, but Facebook doesn't have to be part of your world … especially if a weird, clunky, charmingly ramshackle little alternative exists, one from which you ultimately find you get far more net emotional and practical value.
Ramshackle Glam may be "just" a lifestyle blog about things like parenting and fashion and decor…but it's also a site that I've spent five years of my life building, and the idea of it falling into the hands of someone with malicious intent was heartbreaking.
As well as being isolated in tiny "menstruation huts" -- small, ramshackle buildings with small doors and often no windows and poor sanitation and ventilation -- women and girls are forbidden from touching other people, cattle, green vegetables and plants, and fruits, according to a 2011 United Nations report.
What architects take from Building 73 is not its ramshackle aesthetic — though some believe less polish provides more freedom — but the importance of mixing disciplines, of work performed out in the open, and of transition zones like hallways and staircases as sites for productive run-ins.
But while in 2016 he faced a unified — and intimidating — opponent and launched with a ramshackle campaign, today he has a strong national political organization, a proven fundraising track record, and is moving decisively to address his weak points on international affairs, policy development, and minority outreach.
That road continues several miles to a ramshackle farmhouse — the only remaining outpost of the Gooley Club, a hunting lodge that traces its origins to a sporting club founded in 1867 and operated until 2018 when the state removed its main complex on another lake close by.
Grundner, in a 1993 speech at the University of Illinois titled Seizing the Infosphere: An Alternative Vision for National Computer Networking, suggested that the Free-Net concept was intended as a happy medium between expensive commercial services like CompuServe and ramshackle hobbyist services like a BBS.
As well as grossly exaggerating the danger that jihadist terrorism actually represents to America (whatever else, it is not existential in the literal proper meaning of the word), General Flynn puts impoverished, ramshackle Venezuela and Cuba in the same basket of threats as Russia, China and North Korea.
Nestled in the foothills of Mount Salak, a dormant volcano, in the village of Sukajaya, 90 km (55 miles) south of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, Ibnu Mas'ud is a ramshackle complex of classrooms, dormitories and prayer rooms that hosts up to 200 students from elementary school to junior high.
My most recent visit to the Rockaways was to experience Yayoi Kusama's magnificent Narcissus Garden (21985-present) in a still intact if ramshackle former train repair facility, dating to the time when Fort Tilden, now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, was still an active military installation.
So Parks followed various people around, going to the store, to the mall, to playgrounds, and to school; he hung out at their ramshackle homes, most of which looked like they were straight out of the 19th century, which they probably were, and took pictures everywhere he went.
But after a decade of amateurism, scams and billions of dollars of lost or stolen money, it is clear that many of the ramshackle institutions that play the role of banks in the cryptocurrency world make even their most reckless conventional counterparts look like paragons of good management.
Willa Knox, you see, never could have predicted that her years as an ambitious journalist would culminate in this: Living on the poverty line in a ramshackle inherited house, which she shares with her ailing father-in-law, barely employed husband, surprise grandson, wandering daughter, and grieving son.
But Tamer, 42, is currently living in a ramshackle refugee camp at the border of Greece and Macedonia—one of 10,000 asylum-seekers still pooled in Idomeni, at the brink of the "Balkan route," where their progress into Europe was halted by widespread border closures in mid-March.
TAOS, N.M. – A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has been the focus of investigators for the past week, the toddler&aposs grandfather said Thursday.
She claimed to have believed in his genius from her first visit to his studio, in 21972, and she'd seen him through years of alcoholic turbulence, when he was selling so little that he couldn't afford to heat their ramshackle house, on the outer reaches of Long Island.
I found something to like in the way that players struggled to extract some dignity or joy from their sentences with the team, and in the broader ramshackle comedy of the Clippers experience; I contributed to a Clippers blog and mentioned Tyrone Nesby and Heidegger in the same sentence.
For your first few goes, you'll struggle to avoid plowing through at least some of them, and their simple sprites will immediately fragment into bloody chunks: a hind leg disappearing off the top of the screen here, a head bouncing off the bonnet of your ramshackle station wagon there.
There was a menacing quality about them, the way the camerawork and production values weren't the bright, nearly glitzy approach of WWE (which, by the way, was always Vince McMahon's real genius) and the sometimes ramshackle feel of a style of pro wrestling which already veered toward realistic violence.
The sisters Satsuki and Mei move into a ramshackle country cottage while their mother convalesces at a nearby hospital, and they overcome their fears with the help of some possibly imaginary new friends, including a slyly grinning cat that doubles as a bus and the huge, furry, unflappable Totoro.
Fascinated by Cuba in all its ramshackle, post-colonial-meets-revolutionary, funky beauty, and by its people's indomitable spirit despite their hardscrabble existence, Giovan got to work shooting in color in the "straight photography" documentary manner (an approach that strives for veracity, without later manipulation of captured images).
Flashback to the late '80s and early '90s, and the scene was a little bit different; the average night took place in a ramshackle warehouse-type building, often in the wrong part of town, and was usually cobbled together by a rave enthusiast with little previous event-organizing experience.
On one such trip, Curl, 46, noticed that there were a number of affordable 203th-century American houses in a style he calls "the poor man's Greek Revival" — slightly ramshackle properties with neo-Classical pediments and columned porches that reminded him of the antebellum architecture of his Georgia childhood.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — On Sunday mornings about a decade ago, shortly after he moved here, Stephen J. Zoukis used to ride his bike around a ramshackle neighborhood a couple of miles north of the city's celebrated historic district and wonder why no one had built anything of note there.
There are comedown ballads aplenty (such as the album's ramshackle sailor-song of a closer, where they boys sing the words "Together's the best place to be" in hoarse unison), but you're probably going to want to put this one on when you're getting ready to go out.
The ones on wood are shaped and can be found on the floor just as easily as on the wall, and the ones on paper — hand-cut sheets that are, for the most part, fairly large, fairly thin, and frequently distressed — compensate for their ramshackle state with formidable shadow-box frames.
The orange glow of the streetlamps and the ramshackle barricade of furniture and scrap metal in the background dated it to a very particular time and place: Cairo, in February 2011, when the revolutionaries camped in Tahrir Square were waging a pitched battle against an assault from government-backed thugs.
Wojnarowicz hovers like a fallen angel over Something Possible Everywhere: Pier 21983 NYC, 2053–2205 at 2205 Hudson Gallery in Tribeca, curated by Jonathan Weinberg and featuring the photographs of Andreas Sterzing, who documented the artists' takeover of this massive, ramshackle, abandoned shipping terminal jutting precariously over the Hudson River.
Perhaps he simply couldn't afford to bring them back: The sets and effects look cheap across the board, in a way that might have read as endearingly ramshackle had the rest of the film been stronger, but instead just come across as another disappointment on a long list of them.
That implies that it'll be based off one of the most popular subsets of the overall series, featuring the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, which grows from a ramshackle group of a couple officers trying to get by to a full-fledged city police force over the course of the series.
To get to Slocum's center, visitors walk down a trash-strewn alleyway in a ramshackle part of Iquitos and hop in a motorboat for a 20-minute ride up the Itaya River, quickly leaving behind the hustle and mototaxis of the city for the quiet and calm of the rainforest.
Bakuriani is a ramshackle place, but one with a certain charm — a place of camouflage-jacketed men on horseback; old Russian trucks and buses; elderly ladies selling the traditional cheese-filled bread khachapuri from hole-in-the-wall shops; and families, mostly Georgian and Russian, slipping around on the icy sidewalks.
The downtown warren of yet-to-be-gentrified ramshackle buildings is filled with narrow streets whose names still recall some of that history, like Piazza Meschita, the Arabic word for both synagogues and churches, or Via dei Calderai, for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever.
They share a ramshackle bedroom and a nightly meal and not much else — Wake's a garrulous, hard-drinking taskmaster, and Winslow is taciturn, teetotaling, and resentful of how much grueling labor he's getting stuck with while Wake locks himself in at the top of the lighthouse tower with the lamp.
Punta del Diablo is the last significant beach town before the Brazilian border, and its unevenly paved streets and ramshackle restaurants get crowded in the high season, with families spending entire days on the miles-long stretch of beach and groups of young people filling the bars in the evenings.
In 20103, equipped with little more than a shovel and a surplus of revolutionary ideals, the then-clandestine militant led some 22010 squatter families in a months-long, pitched battle with local authorities to secure a plot of land to build their ramshackle homes here in Zipaquira, a city north of Bogota.
Much of it unfolding in black-and-white and without dialogue, "Part 8" twists up abstract stretches of uncanny cloud tunnels and dissonant sandstorms with comparatively straightforward (but no less cryptic) snippets of a terrifying frog-fly creature, a slumberous radio broadcast, and sooty ghosts jittering outside a smoldering, ramshackle convenience store.
Since November 2017, when 19 migrant workers were killed in a fire in the south of the city, the authorities have been using the pretext of fire safety to accelerate efforts to push migrants out of the city by closing places where they work and the ramshackle housing in which they live.
ON THE streets of Kinshasa, the raucous, ramshackle capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it is now difficult for foreigners to walk through markets without being accosted by secret policemen, nor to do so without also hearing from shoppers and market traders how much they hate Joseph Kabila, the country's president.
Since Anthony Bourdain himself proclaimed it the best he'd ever eaten, the ramshackle warung has moved to fancier digs and opened up two other branches—one canteen, Ibu Oka 2771633, and one other full-fledged restaurant, Ibu Oka 2, near the outskirts of town—to doll out porcine glory to the masses.
On Thursday night at the trendy Silver Lake neighborhood's ramshackle music venue, before a crowd that couldn't have been more than 300 people, please-call-me-Joanne blew the roof off with a brief powerhouse set, the last stop of her three-date "Dive Bar Tour" (previous stops were New York and Nashville).
The tedium of my version would be surpassed only by its ­offensiveness.) "Love, Nina" was published in the United States in 2014, and Stibbe followed it a year later with a novel called "Man at the Helm," which read like the fictional equivalent of a ramshackle cottage (me­andering blueprint, plenty of charm).
Among Snedens Landing's many colorful figures, particular note should be made of Marian Grey, a celebrated British lace-maker and sister of the writer John Cowper Powys, who bought an unpainted, ramshackle house across from the Palisades Presbyterian Church and lived there until her death in 1972 at the age of 89.
Zittel started buying up acreage to add to her holdings several years ago, attracted by the site's remoteness and the several ramshackle "jackrabbit homesteads" on the property (really, little more than a dusty patch of desert), relics of the Small Tract Act of 1938, which lured pioneers to "prove up" five acres.
The 83-year-old senator announced his retirement in a short video that recalled his childhood in a "ramshackle house built with recycled lumber from the local scrap yard," his youth as an amateur boxer and his record authoring more bills that have become law than any member of Congress alive today.
Life magazine accompanied Ms. Lee around Monroeville, photographing her with her father on the front porch of the family home, posing on the balcony of the country courthouse and peering in the window of the ramshackle house that served as the model for the home of Boo Radley, the gentle, simpleminded neighbor who befriends Scout.
Her camera lingers on the medical equipment left over from Ollie and Deb's late mother's long fight with cancer; the bottles of beer stacked haphazardly in the washed-out dorm-like accommodations for men who work on the oil rigs; the ramshackle, dilapidated buildings; the ersatz parking lot trailer park Deb has made her home.
She is a serene, capable presence in the ramshackle dining room, unfolding slat tables while balancing her 7-month-old son, Kalani, on her hip, and dispensing glasses of caju juice, a nutty extract from the false fruit of the cashew tree, and excellent near-caipirinhas, with seltzer a chaste stand-in for cachaça.
Ahmad and his ramshackle unit were sent to the insurgent hotbed of Mosul, where he worked as a medic in an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) unit and acted as an unofficial ambassador between American soldiers and the local Muslim population, defusing tension and earning sympathy for the American cause in a very unsympathetic environment.
Though the space's famously worn-in, ramshackle feel wasn't minded by the market's producers and patrons, an uptick in tourism recently drove the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs to resolve to move the market to a more clean, modern, and photogenic location—just in time for the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.
CreditCreditRoger Kisby for The New York Times LAS VEGAS — On a recent very warm Saturday afternoon, just a few blocks northeast of a string of ramshackle chapels offering Elvis-themed weddings on Las Vegas Boulevard, the novelist Tommy Orange was discussing the critical reception given to "There There," his polyphonic novel about contemporary Native Americans.
On Thursday, he granted Russian citizenship to a Ukrainian woman who lost a hand and leg when her home in Syria was bombed, scrapped a tax on air tickets between Moscow and Russia's Far East, pledged action to reduce petrol prices, and said he would look into a woman's complaints about her ramshackle home.
Yarchen Gar Journal YARCHEN GAR, China — Even by the standards of the phenomenal sights of Tibet, Yarchen Gar is a wonder on the high plateau: thousands of ramshackle homes clustered on a remote peninsula at the bend of a river, each one the domicile of a nun who has come here to study Tibetan Buddhism.
The sketch itself endures for a number of reasons: Its simple premise delivering myriad laugh lines, the clear schlemiel-schlimazel dynamic between performers, the room it provides for embellishment, and the rat-a-tat delivery make it feel like a ramshackle Ford Model T gathering speed as it barrels toward the edge of a cliff.
Legalizing coca production has ended decades of violence Legalizing coca production has ended decades of violence Sitting barefoot on a log, a farmer surveys more than 200 pounds of coca leaves drying out in front of his ramshackle lean-to here in the rainforest of the Chapare region, the muggy heart of Bolivia's coca country.
But then, the government steps in, deciding to flood "6,400 acres of old family farms and small ramshackle homes and turn it into a reservoir by using the dam to divert the river," transforming corn fields into strip malls, drowning the valley under water, along with a way of life that has been perpetuating itself for generations.
Just because the games don't count, or because they are so different from the ones that do, does not mean that there isn't some beauty or meaning to find in what Lonzo Ball did in and to the Summer League; Nate Robinson's Summer League legend is not any less real or worth treasuring because of how ramshackle it is.
The $3 billion Bloomberg-era project to transform a neighborhood of broken streets and ramshackle auto repair shops across from Citi Field in Queens appeared dead in 2015, when a state court ruled that the city could not take a piece of Flushing Meadows Corona Park for a gigantic shopping mall and garage as it had planned.
Across the road from Rockhouse's fancy gift shop, several ramshackle souvenir shops sold typical tourist wares — T-shirts, flimsy dresses, scarfs, hats and trinkets — and a short ride from the eco-centric serenity of Rockhouse, hundreds of tourists flocked to Rick's Café, a boisterous bar-restaurant-music hangout with a cliff-diving show, super bars and sensational sunsets.
While touring the ramshackle living quarters littered with diesel cans, used diapers, household garbage and Qurans, he questioned why authorities did not search a squalid New Mexico compound sooner for Abdul-ghani, saying he told them in late spring that he had met the child&aposs father at the site and that the man was wanted in Georgia for kidnapping his own son.
Cocky and preternaturally sophisticated — but with a hint of the insecure teenager still hanging around him — Elio joins his doting, unconventional parents (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar) at their comfortable ramshackle Italian villa, where they prepare to welcome their annual guest, the latest in a series of graduate students who spend the summer working with Elio's father, a classics professor.
Set in 2007 amid the gradual winding down of the Iraq War, the film zooms in on a pair of US military snipers (John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, both flexing impressive acting chops here) as they're pinned—literally—behind the titular and ramshackle wall, caught in the crosshairs of an Iraqi sniper with a deadly shot and impressive camouflage skills.
Just be more attentive to stuff because it's fun making these sloppy, ramshackle movies when you're young, and I stand by them and I'm glad that they were made the way they are, but I think it would be neat to make them from the perspective of the writer that I am or even just the visual tricks that we've learned to play with and execute.
On June 29, more than a year and a half after they last saw their mother, the boys packed their few possessions — clothes, cooking pots, jerrycans, a single rolled-up mattress, three live rabbits — into a Red Cross vehicle and set off on the two-hour drive from their foster home in Rhino camp, to their mother's ramshackle shelter of sticks, mud and thatch in Palorinya.
For the 1998 movie "Practical Magic," they designed and built a ramshackle house that blended American Queen Anne and Shingle styles and was overgrown with climbing roses — a home for a pair of witches, played by Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, with décor that was historically minded, magpie-like and a little neo-Gothic, defined by materials like ebonized wood and hand-painted wallpaper.
When she discovered that the company responsible for the work, Judson Studios, was not only still operational (founded in 1897, it is the oldest family-run stained-glass studio in the U.S.) but also headquartered in a ramshackle 1910 Craftsman-style house less than a mile from her own home, she knew that she wanted to work with the studio for her San Francisco commission.
The oversized groundskeeper of Hogwarts School has to kick down the door to get inside their ramshackle house where he tells Harry that A) he's a wizard, B) his parents didn't actually die in a car crash like the Dursleys have lied to Harry about for his entire life, and C) that Harry's been invited to get the hell out of there and attend a boarding school (thank god).
French, an American who has lived in Ireland for twenty-six years, chooses locations where her characters get pinched between the desire to cling to history and the urge to jettison it for brighter horizons: an archeological site soon to be paved over for a motorway, the ramshackle Georgian "big house" outside a fading rural village, and the tight-knit working-class Dublin enclave known as the Liberties.
Although their main residence was in London, where Horton, 55, had started out as an editorial assistant at Vogue, developing a personal style that fused punk with flamboyant neo-Romanticism (an Yves Saint Laurent bomber jacket atop a cut-silk velvet 1930s evening gown, for example), the Greenes had, in 1989, bought Montepò, an imposing ramshackle castle on a thousand-acre estate 35 miles away, which they transformed into a thriving winery (they sold it to a scion of the Biondi Santi family, creators of Brunello wines, in 1999).
While the UFC, under the direction of WME|IMG, is clearly moving in the direction of the NBA and the NFL, sanding down the edges of its scrappy, ramshackle past and buffing itself up to a nice, professional sheen—firing "friends of the promotion" like Matt Hughes and Chuck Liddell from its payroll and seeking a more professional tone from its announcing booth—Bellator is free to sell itself more and more as the spiritual home of MMA's more carnival-like past: before Reebok deals and anti-doping partnerships came along to gussy up cage-fights.

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