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...series along with fellow American Bill Harmon: "We're not making great television. We were asked by a commercial TV station to produce a program that appeals to a mass market and makes money. That is all we set out to do." In fact, the production is amateurish, with spotty acting and poor camera work and direction to match the inane script. Still, so overwhelming has been its Australian success that the producers are looking for export markets. Because the show is black and white-and slightly blue -the U.S., perhaps fortunately, is not on the sales list...
...quite poignant one when a country boy (Ralph Wilcox) finds out that his sister (Barbara Alston) who fled to the city has become a prostitute. But the book is torpid, the music is undistinguished and the words are undistinguishable, thanks to a faulty sound system and a resolutely amateurish cast...
...Bewildered Cadets. The planning of the coup was, at best, amateurish. The plotters used green, bewildered army cadets. They neglected to block roads, close airports or persuade other units in Algeria's 45,000-man army to join them. Said Hassan in his post-coup press conference: "They took over the Ministry of Interior, but they forgot about police headquarters. They occupied the radio station, but forgot about the telegraph and post office. They used the radio transmitter that covers Rabat, but forgot the one in Tangiers." What is more, both Colonel Mohammed Ababou, director of the Abermoumou military...
...Amateurish Criticism. Leaping to the attack, the opposing psychiatrists emphasized that the Philadelphia study covered the behavior of only 38 of the millions who have experimented with pot. Said Leon Wurmser, scientific director of the Johns Hopkins Drug Abuse Center: "There is no systematic quantitative study which would allow any conclusion as to a cause-and-effect relationship between marijuana use and serious mental problems." Professor Norman Zinberg of Harvard pointed out that the Kolansky-Moore findings could be applied to beer drinkers as well as pot users, and San Francisco Psychiatrist Joel Fort said that the study contained "inaccurate...
...every sudden plane of light. The water is like heavy blue air in which natural law is suspended. Time seems liquid, depth and risk meaningless-until Gimbel surfaces too quickly and doubles over with the bends. Above sea level, the film itself wears gills, fins and horns. It is amateurish and even a bit silly, with crises boyishly re-enacted by Gimbel ("I got the liver scared...