Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen on TV last week, the endless bits and pieces of testimony tended to give viewers a chaotic picture of what happened among Administration staff members. While many Americans think something improper took place, their appreciation of just how much of it went on has been blurred by White House accounts designed to keep the story contradictory and confusing. But when testimony and events uncovered by Senate investigators are assembled into a running narrative, the story paints a complex but disturbing portrait of a White House gripped by a culture of deception. TIME has reconstructed events of the key month...
...accusation that stings because many of the 1.5 million Koreans in Japan at the end of World War II were conscripted laborers, and those who stayed still suffer discrimination. In the 1950s and '60s, many believed that Kim Il Sung's North Korea, which was faring better than the chaotic South, was the best bet for Korea's future. About 40% of the 600,000 Koreans who stayed in Japan swore allegiance to Chongryun -- and Kim -- as the defenders of Korean interests...
Behind the scenes, however, officials report that the Clinton foreign policy process is as chaotic as ever. Informality seems the rule. Ideas on how to boost Turkish foreign aid sought casually by senior officials turn up verbatim in talking points for Clinton's meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister. A paper on Chinese human rights finds its way to the Oval Office without first being seen by Secretary of State Warren Christopher. As a top official near the center of the action complained, "Decisions are not done early, not done well, without anything that resembles process." Another State Department official...
...late 20th century, the world's peoples seem to be engaged in a chaotic and often dangerous migration toward democracy. Race antagonism is surely the bitterest, most atavistic obstacle in the way of that procession. South Africa has now formally dismantled the barrier. But of course, the more formidable wall is in the human heart...
Lars made "over the top" a compliment, but he was the exception. Too often, confusion and even desperation haunted the runways. As the wise veteran Geoffrey Beene remarked, "These are chaotic times, but that need not be reflected in chaotic clothing." But the buyer next fall had better be wary, for the reign of chaos is not over...