Word: amateurisms
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With seven long months to go before the presidential election, the American public is itching to vote for something--anything. Fox's American Idol is still taking calls, as are clones like the USA Network's Nashville Star. But the plebiscite frenzy has gone far beyond these amateur-hour extravaganzas. You can hardly turn the dial without running into another opportunity to make your vote count, for something or other. --By Elizabeth L. Bland...
...stop me from doing a Frank Loesser tribute one of these weeks.) Sometimes, though, I get bundles. The record-holder for TOF is the series I wrote last summer on Bollywood films. That spurred 150-200 e-mails, most of them long, knowledgeable and helpful to a passionate amateur in a huge field...
...years, their paths through the amateur hockey circuit diverged, but their friendship remained unshakable. They weren’t teammates any more on the ice, but running with the same crowd off the ice, little else had changed...
While heavy ideas may not be part of thefacebook ethos, the site’s revolution has an impact on students. The sociological heavies might have their eyes elsewhere right now, but amateur anthropologists like Zuckerberg and Hughes are changing daily lives, one poke at a time...
...glamorous costumes that take them back to the bygone era of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. A nationwide renewed interest in classic dances like swing, salsa and tango has attracted many new competitors to the sport, says Ken Richards, director of promotions and publicity for the U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association (USABDA...