Word: amateurish
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Reminiscent more of a high school theatrical than an HRDC production, No Bull was undeniably amateurish, both in its script and its staging. The sung lyrics were adequately funny, but the spoken dialogue, in its attempts at wittiness, wanted the finesse that characterizes even the most canned Broadway concoctions. The music was for the most part deftly scored and generally quite suitable for the purposes of musical comedy. Unfortunately, it ended up sounding dismayingly cacophonous in the hands of the orchestra, which was consistently squeaky, poorly unified and out of tune. Most of the cast members were obviously not experienced...
While the computer-drawn landscapes are a disappointing, amateurish touch, the changes in the Hoth creature positively hurt the scene. They ruin the once-excellent pacing and remove much of the suspense by making concrete the details about the creature's appearance and activities which were once left to our imagination. Unfortunately, nothing we see the creature do is as frightening as what we imagined it to be doing...
...this should be so, since a) the art market has run out of new "movements," while b) there has been a slight backlash against the star system of the art world and the excesses of its market, causing a new ripple of pseudo-penitential interest in the anonymous, the amateurish, the "naive" or "incorrupt" artist. Having run out of external primitives, America must find internal ones, and there are plenty to go around...
...after borrowing cash from friends and families, the band spent $8,000 to release its own mini-album, Kootchypop--an endearingly amateurish six-track production that featured an early version of Hold My Hand. The CD sold about 40,000 copies and got the attention of Atlantic, which, intrigued by the band's home-brewed fan base, signed Hootie to a modest $75,000 deal in 1993. "I don't think Atlantic was hoping for anything when it came to the deal," says Tim Sommer, who brokered the contract for Atlantic. "Did I think they'd make a million dollars...
...students of his obsessions that the man's name was Percy Wood, and the bomb came disguised in a book called Ice Brothers, published by Arbor House, whose symbol is a leaf. He polished and sometimes varnished his wood pieces, but it was clear, from the skewed corners and amateurish joints, that he was not a trained woodworker. "He's not a craftsman," Don Davis, a top postal inspector in San Francisco, said months ago. "His cuts aren't straight. They don't make right angles. He spends a lot of time; he does a lot of polishing and sanding...