Word: amateurisms
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...wife convicted of transmitting pornography through an Internet computer bulletin board wound up with stiff sentences in federal court today, raising the possibility that people who put risque material online had better watch theobscenity standardsof any community that can access their system. Robert and Carleen Thomas, who founded the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif., received 37 and 30 months, respectively, but plan to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Their attorney has accused federal prosecutors of holding the trial in the Bible Belt -- Memphis, Tenn., where someone accessed the bulletin board and lodged...
...First amateur filmmaker to be enrolled in national film registry...
...rare in contemporary writing to come across the pure love he expresses for the people who raised him: his chemist father, who worked 37 dutiful years for the same Ohio oil company; his schoolteacher mother, who dreamed when young of becoming an actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains out." The only thing his parents did wrong, Frazier suggests, was to fail to prepare him for the loss of them...
...People who've never even played tackle football can come and learn to play rugby," Conell says. "That's the way it is everywhere. It's the last amateur sport in the world, as far as I know...
...enemy, uncertain what they were fighting for. "The jungles stood dark and unyielding. The corpses gaped. The war itself was a mystery. Nobody knew what it was about, or why they were there, or who started it, or who was winning, or how it might end." Wade is an amateur magician nicknamed "Sorcerer" by his unit, and Vietnam becomes a place where he tries to make reality go away; it is a perfect training ground for the subterfuge and surveillance tricks people also use in love...