Word: amateurish
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Louise Hicks posed a formidable challenge. Although an amateurish and unattractive campaigner, she had rolled up 69% and 64% of the vote in her last two elections to the school committee; in 1965 she got the biggest citywide vote of any candidate for any office. This year she led a field of ten in the mayoral primary...
With its detailed directions on how guer rilla bands striking at neighboring cities from mobile bases can precipitate full-scale revolutions in every Latin American nation, the handbook makes Castro's old tactics look almost amateurish...
...governor, much less performed them in any fashion, liberal or conservative. He is now what he was as a campaigner and as a restaurant owner: a little man who shakes hands with the small-time businessman and the white worker. He delivers a lot more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming governor, but otherwise he is the same. He still spends one entire day a week seeing people who want to bring their garbage difficulties of personal problems to him. He gets immense satisfaction from playing Santa Claus for the people of Georgia...
...drive," is German for sinister. Director Sidney Furie confuses tension and pretension, hokes up the story with odd-angle camera shots-of a man bicycling alone across a huge airstrip, a confrontation with the enemy in an echoing, empty marble mansion. To no avail. As in many another amateurish spy film, Sinatra and company have forgotten to look for the enemy within-a soggy scenario that gummed up the caper from the start...
...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In that film, Sophia Loren played three women; in this one, Shirley MacLaine plays seven. Both movies employed the same director (Vittorio De Sica) and scenarist (Cesare Zavattini), inviting an unfortunate comparison. Shirley is no Sophia, although even Loren would have had trouble with these amateurish anecdotes...