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Jack Horner's entourage is explicitly presented as a dysfunctional makeshift family: Besides father Jack and sister Rollergirl, Dirk finds a mother figure in the porn actress Amber Waves (Julianne Moore, who does a good job of looking beautiful in one scene and puffy in the next), and a brother in the ugly, dumb, good-natured hack actor Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly).
Facing a dramatic influx of Cubans, President Clinton abolished the US policy of automatic asylum to Cuban refugees, placing them in a makeshift tent settlement in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
The U.S. consulate in Karachi is a makeshift fortress, reflecting the gravity of the surrounding threat.
Reporters described the "outpouring" of emotion at the makeshift shrine, mentioning the address over and over again: 20 N. Moore St., 20 N. Moore St. The accompanying videotape used close-up shots and slow pans of the not-entirely cluttered stoop; the camera lingered over the flickering flames of memorial candles and the droplets of water clinging to the flower petals.
They carried every makeshift weapon imaginable.