Word: amateurish
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Both sides made hesitant, amateurish use of TV, handicapped by their own fears of it, and by the old-maidish restrictions of the government-owned BBC. On one TV press conference. Prime Minister Eden gathered his Cabinet stalwarts about him. There was only one declared enemy among the newsmen. "The criticism most frequently made of you," said pro-Labor Editor Hugh Cudlipp, ". . . is that you are not well versed in home affairs . . . What do you feel...
...there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival-in Stark Young's admirable new translation-of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Despite much that is amateurish or pretentious, off-Broadway increasingly ministers to sound minority tastes; these days, indeed, dramatic caviar is only to be had cafeteria-style...
Foreign observers in Cairo agreed that the defendants had had a fair trial, but were surprised by so severe a judgment against men who had proved amateurish as spies and inept as saboteurs...
...Andrews Sisters and the Modernaires were first warbling their close harmonies on the radio. The outfits usually got their break with a performance on a disk-jockey show or an amateur hour. Their commercial success (some now earn five-figure incomes) probably depends on listener identification, i.e., the more amateurish the singers sound, the stronger their appeal for the jukebox set. As a result, most vocal groups get best results with music that has a country or hillbilly flavor, with primitive harmonies and tunes that would go over big in a nursery school. A few, such as the Crew-Cuts...
...dancing is entrusted to Robert Norriss who does a comic solo in the first act and replaces Whedon as Clyde for a ballet scene in the second. Norriss has obvious talents but they gain nothing from his fixed smile--an Amateur Hour expression and indeed the only amateurish thing about Norriss. The ballet, choreographer Dolly Niggemeyer's only misstep, is a trite, dull loss for which the dancers cannot be held responsible. Otherwise, the dancing is attractive and the stage is always lively, seldom cluttered...