Word: amateurish
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Much of When You Coming Back Red Ryder is amateurish in just this sense. Brilliant analyses of the universe hatched in the wee hours pale by day. The movie is full of cloddishly conceived ideas which could have brilliant if any one of them had been followed through in a disciplined...
...human) flesh in the middle of next week, when the Cleveland Indians gallop into town for a three-game set at Fenway. Normally it's a real challenge to pick up a Sox ticket these days, but the Tribe is so amateurish they've been invited to send a delegation to the Olympics, so don't sweat it. Rumor has it that Bowie Kuhn actually forgot Cleveland is still in the major leagues, and the team certainly hasn't done much to correct that impression. Look for a scalping...
Depending on one's point of view, FM is either 1) some Hollywood executive's idea of an extravagant practical joke or 2) a major breakthrough in avant-garde cinema or 3) the most amateurish major studio release so far this year. Those moviegoers who conclude that FM is 1) or 2) will find the film a fascinating experience. Those who decide that FM is in fact 3) may want to write the film's distributor, Universal Pictures, and demand their ticket money back. But any moviegoer with a taste for adventure will surely want to sample...
...about mystery writing. These are wise, and written with breathtaking authority. There is also an excellent 29-page bibliography. One suspects that Gardner would disapprove of the rest: the prim prose, the slapdash production (pages are numbered only fitfully; there is one flying leap from 186 to 204), the amateurish illustration. Gardner...
President Carter is a "victim of historical circumstances," and is not personally responsible for the problems which still beset the nation 15 months after he took office, Brokaw said. However, Brokaw said, his handling of the neutron bomb controversy was "amateurish...