Word: amateurishly
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...person cast, after all, had not received their scripts until minutes before the sparsely attended Leverett G-spot premiere. “They just read right through the stage directions,” Turhan F. Sarwar ’06 says. All involved acknowledge the confusing dialogue and amateurish script...
...told the crowd, though, because they were as into the music as the people on stage. Of course, judging by the instrument cases propped against every vertical surface, most of them were there to perform. It may have been an open-mic night, but there was nothing amateurish about it—these people knew what they were doing. The open-mics have no cover—if you’re broke and want to see some talented part-timers you should check it out. Masaki Minami, a 25-year-old Berklee student, was onstage when The Hotspot walked...
...first, the video appears to be the latter. In self-consciously amateurish animation (with the aesthetic of a hastily-assembled Flash project), brightly-colored creatures dance, birds flutter about, and flowers, rainbows, snowflakes, and polka-dots abound. There are even little animated penguins in funny hats, for God’s sake. It made the long-presumed-dead girly part of my brain come alive with cries of “Awwww” and “Eeeeeee!” It is Cute...
...enough majority to govern with the Free Democrats (fdp). That could force Merkel's and Schröder's parties into a grand coalition, potentially leading to a stalemate on economic reform. In the first few weeks of campaigning, Merkel and the cdu made some amateurish mistakes, appearing divided and, at times, muddled. Even the choice of theme song doesn't seem to have been thought through. The Rolling Stones are startled to hear that the track from their album Goats Head Soup has been pressed into service. "We didn't grant permission," a spokesman for the musicians told Time...
...zones--places where it's more fun to be a fool on the floor than cool on the sidelines. Where Idol is about show-biz amateurs trying to go pro, Dancing is about show-biz pros turning amateur (there's not even a cash prize) and daring to be amateurish. Dance, for most of us, is about letting go, being inept and not caring. And Dancing, from its laughed-off missteps to its militantly dated production values, is that sentiment lustily, dorkily embodied. It is not the most original, brilliant show of the year, or even the month...