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Word: amateurish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being a celebrity mayor has its drawbacks. Local Merchant Paul Laub, an unsuccessful candidate against Eastwood last year, has renamed the basement of his store Clintville and sells a dizzying array of Eastwood schlock, including a brief, amateurish video at $19.95 and women's underpants inscribed with a suggestive message. "I've asked him to stop," says Eastwood. "Unfortunately, it's been a gold mine to him." Crows Laub, who says he will embark on a two-month vacation in England after a three-month stay in Hawaii: "Who do you think really won the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Baby Kissing | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...FAIR to criticize an amateur production for being amateurish? It wasn't a good sign that I began to ponder this question but a few minutes into the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. At least I had a long time--the rest of the play--to come up with an answer...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...HANDLINS' BOOK offers flashes of insight and occasionally masterful prose. As a pure, academic history book, however, it has major faults. At times the writing is amateurish. For example, some passages are so breathy and frothily silly that it is difficult to believe they were written by an historian...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: The Pitfalls of Heroic History Writing | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Congressional Democrats, appearing also on the morning news programs, called Reagan's approval of secret overtures to Iran an "amateurish" foreign policy that makes him appear willing to trade arms for hostages while eroding U.S. credibility with its allies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adviser: Dialogue to Continue With Iran | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...seems to have been operated out of the basement of the White House...the State Department cut out, the Defense Department cut out, almost in an amateurish way," said Sen. Patrick Leahy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adviser: Dialogue to Continue With Iran | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

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