Word: amateurishness
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...dimensions of Marshall McLuhan's global village, then last week's Academy Awards made a certain amount of sense. Hollywood's annual orgy of self-adulation was really the commencement exercises at good old Global Village High, complete with prizes, dull speeches, strained humor, amateurish entertainment-and one hell of a party afterward, for winners and losers alike. At least two things made this year's ceremony, silly as it always is, a little bit different: the most popular girl ended up winning none of the prizes, and one of the biggest awards of all went...
...undefeated Radcliffe tennis team plays against the undefeated Princeton women's team today. Although only in their first season, there is nothing amateurish about the Princeton women and they are heavy favorites in today's match...
...undergone more innovation in the video medium than any other kind of broadcasting; the changes it has fostered are indicative of the kind of possibilities the medium has. But aside from these, the possibilities for innovation are still virtually unexplored. Groove Tube is, for the most part, produced in amateurish, satirical imitation of television's empty tradition, but it does make a few experimental steps beyond the limits of normal use of the television camera, and these steps are, if not quite revolutionary, at least indicative of what should be forthcoming from the future efforts of Shapiro and other video...
Folk Cynicism. Good intentions are not enough to make a citizens' lobby effective. Some such efforts, Gardner concedes, have been "fumbling, inchoate, amateurish." He hopes that Common Cause will be different because of the special expertise and influence of its supporters, and because it is an idea whose time has come. Besides, he insists, "the folk cynicism about citizen efforts is negated by the record. The conservation movement, family planning, the Viet Nam peace crusade have done pretty well." Women got the vote, child labor was abolished, Prohibition was imposed and then repealed, he says, all "because people raised...
...group's description of drama as documentary arose from the fact that Bird is one series that is not phony, but deeply felt. The staff is largely black and inexperienced, and often plots are simplistic. The dialogue is sometimes stilted, the acting amateurish. The production budget (averaging $21,000 per segment) was about one-fifth of what the networks pay for a prime-time show - and looked...