Word: amateurish
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Along with the evidence, purportedly extracted from the 26 notebooks, came snickers. The Western agents, charged the Soviet press, were so "amateurish" and "clumsy" that the whole train knew they were spies-despite their rather incredible claim that they were Olympic athletes bound for Tokyo. They never left their compartment unguarded, refused to fraternize with their fellow passengers, and, weighed down with long-lens cameras, they ignored the conductor's admonitions not to take pictures out of the windows. At one station, jeered the Moscow press, they were so busy shooting a siding full of military boxcars that they...
...Matter of Style. The opening salvos were hardly inspiring-or definitive. Wilson had long ago determined to launch Labor's campaign with a U.S.-style convention demonstration in Wembley Stadium. It turned out to be a long (5½ hours), amateurish pastiche of everything from African drums and Indian dancers to slides (which repeatedly jammed) of unemployed miners in the '30s. Deputy Labor Leader George Brown got a far bigger ovation than Wilson, who is a donnishly precise but uninspired orator...
...WILLIAM SCRANTON, even in his losing, sometimes amateurish campaign, was an articulate candidate, appeared gracious and gallant in his final acceptance of defeat. Appearing before the convention after the first ballot had signaled his defeat, Scranton said: "Some of us did not prevail at this convention. But let it be clearly understood that this great Republican Party is our historic house. This is our home. We have no intention of deserting it. We are still Republicans-and not very still ones either. And let the Democratic Party find no comfort in the spirited campaign we have waged within...
Soft Pedal. After its amateurish debut, the supplement has graduated into a Sunday staple for both advertisers and readers. Many photographs bear the credit line Lord Snowdon (Princess Margaret's husband) and bylines are big: Ian Fleming, Lord Attlee, etc. Circulation stands at 1,200,000; the Daily Telegraph's Sunday edition started in 1962 with a phenomenal 1,400,000 only to level off around...
Athan Agnos's inept translation and Kalman Burnim's erratic direction of his largely amateurish cast, serve only to emphasize the weaknesses of the play...