Word: amateurish
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...people who eventually want to be on the Mery Griffin show. And to them, it's just another gig. But the thing about talking about Hair as a gig- as a job- is that it's like Jon said, it may be a little bit blah, but amateurish as it is in a way, it's the only game going...
...killings were amateurish, with fingerprints left at the scene. The accused had in their possession guns that FBI ballistics experts are comparing with bullets recovered from the victims. At week's end FBI scuba divers dredged up mysterious evidence from the bottom of the icy Monongahela River near Clarksville. The investigation was broadening into other states, including a Boyle stronghold in east Tennessee, and more arrests were expected. Meanwhile, the Senate announced a major investigation into the U.M.W. But the FBI refused to reveal who, if anyone, they suspect wanted Jock Yablonski dead...
These one-word titles betray a poverty of dramatic invention. Stomp's cast is energetic, visibly sincere and hopelessly amateurish. The show's ingredients come in the familiar Dropout Kit-anti-Viet Nam, pro-pot, anti-haircuts, pro-four-letter words. The saddest trouble with so many of "the kids" is that they have become such conformist old fossils while scarcely out of their teens...
...minor proved to be a beautiful small piece. Bruckner belongs to that unhappy group of composers including Liszt. Schmidt, Reger, Vaughan Williams, and even Schoenberg, whose music is fashionably vilified without benefit of humane audition. The tedious and lamentable caricature of Bruckner most often encountered is of an amateurish, even childishly naive, rural organist who afflicted the world with eleven appallingly identical symphonies which are massive, repetitious, incoherent and only convulsively appealing. If he is given any credit at all, which rarely happens since people prefer summary condemnation to critical acceptance of monumental genius, it is as an influence...
...nature of reality." His competition consists of Hollywood Squares, Concentration, The Art Linkletter Show, Beverly Hillbillies reruns and, inevitably, The Loretta Young Show. Reality being what it is, that line-up may defeat his efforts. But so far, despite occasional camera bobbles and other evidences of a somewhat amateurish crew, Tempo/Boston is far more interesting than most of Boston's local programs -and, for that matter, the network competition as well...