Word: amateurish
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...response is required to counter Mark Whitaker's confused and amateurish film review of Heart Throbs '77 (March 28) at Off the Wall. A thorough refutation would fill pages, but choosing a few of the most blatant will suffice. Whitaker totally misses the point of Gunvor Nelson's Take Off, dismissing it as "a long strip-tease...with a twist...sexist, definitely." Robert Taylor, Boston Globe art critic, wrote "finishes as a comment on the fact that the stripper's exhibitionism has robbed her of every tatter of human identity." To say that Take Off is sexist because...
...idea: a short called "Ass," by Tom DeMore, is built on the idea of a stag movie for donkeys, replete with all but completely graphic bestiality. A cartoon short called "Desire Pie," meanwhile, filmed by a group from the Carpenter Center, looks like an animated version of the amateurish depictions of coitus in bathroom stalls around campus (with a few touches reminiscent of The Yellow Submarine thrown in--for artistic merit...
...many towns see parades like the one the "Town of Southie" enjoyed under sunny skies and amid melting mounds of snow. The marchers themselves--the South Boston VFW Post, Boy Scouts, the parish Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Youth Organization, and even the Harvard University Band--were amateurish compared to those who appear in the parades of most large cities, but this show was no Pasadena spectacular intended for viewed from a cordoned-off curbside...
Bill Scheft's malicious attack on the Harvard Band in the Crimson of January 11 was an example of sloppy and amateurish journalism. As was the case last year, the Harvard hockey team is suffering from a mediocre season, at least in contrast to previous years of championship-caliber teams; and as was the case last year, The Crimson has begun to do what the National Enquirer would do; look for scapegoats. Again the Harvard Band has been found as the number one culprit...
...Vietnam days, there has been an unwillingness to listen to outside opinions; a pattern of decisionmaking by a small group; an intolerance of dissenting views, both within and outside the government; and an inability to reevaluate policy as circumstances changed. Although the swine flu fiasco at times seemed laughable, amateurish, the reasons for its failure are serious, and bode ill for future endeavors...