Word: amateurness
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Even assuming Farkes—the junior home run king who should be selected on the first day of the amateur draft—chooses to leave school early, it will be the strongest senior class since Ben Crockett ’02 headlined Harvard’s last Ivy title...
Zaccagnino was inspired to bring together the campus’ amateur musicians because music has been the connective force for most of his friendships at Harvard...
...amateur level, he still races “several Ferraris, my handful of Dodge Vipers, and other occasional exotics.” But that pricey car collection is just his favorites; Nabokov has never been strapped for cash. “He was accustomed to moving in high circles,” Elvins, the former opera singer, says. “He was elegant and he demanded elegance in his lady friends...
...Rodriguez, the film's writer, director, cinematographer, editor, composer and probably caterer, has made lots of good movies, from El Mariachi to Sin City, but they're all in 2-D. His stereoscopic films, Spy Kids 3-D and this one, are pretty lame. Sharkboy has an especially frantic, amateur atmosphere, with a mostly maladroit cast (George Lopez lends some charm to the four roles he plays). The script, based on a notion by Rodriguez's 7-year-old son, creates a universe whose physical laws and narrative rules keep changing, thus sabotaging the film's internal logic. As Sharkboy...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a public toilet seat because you don't know who used it last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an lite...