Word: amateurish
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...Australian Taxation Office. She is doing penance for her imprudent affair, and her punishment is to be assigned to investigate crummy outfits like Catchprice Motors. Maria is rapidly losing her illusions: "She knew already what she would find if she audited this business: little bits of crookedness, amateurish, easily found. The unpaid tax and the fines would then bankrupt the business...
...which Turner bought in 1976, snuffled along in the gutter for years, then went from last place to first in their division this year and lost the World Series by only a bat's whoosh. And CNN, once derided as the "Chicken Noodle Network" for its low wages and amateurish presentation, is now the video medium of record...
...location in Dealey Plaza, actors and crew filmed the motorcade re- enactment with super-8 movie cameras. "The idea," says co-film editor Pietro Scalia, "was to create a point of view so that this section has an amateurish look." After much wrangling, the JFK company secured use of the Texas School Book Depository, from which shots were fired on Nov. 22. The sixth floor had become a museum, so the moviemakers used the seventh floor there and, for appropriate perspective of the motorcade, the sixth floor of an adjacent building. Stone also filmed at the Dallas police headquarters, where...
...Pirandellian-like staging"? "Shakespearian-like dialogue"? Does this strike you as amateurish-like ineptitude? I am unfamiliar with The Crimson's comp process for its arts staff, but surely the most prestigious college daily in the country must be able to procure writers with a better grasp of basic written English prose. These enormous gaffes almost distract the careful and intelligent reader from other, comparatively minor affronts to the English language, such as the unfortunate mixed metaphor "drowning out dramatic content...
Hart's stilted prose style, in its attempt to create a sensual yet literary story, kills all the emotion that this potentially erotic plot could have elicited. Hart tries frantically to use as many adjectives as possible and ends up with amateurish Dickensian overkill--the story and characters are utterly unbelievable...