Word: amateurness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When the rumors of the cutback first broke last week, House IM representatives and eager amateur rowers quickly flooded House open lists with complaints and petitions...
Dudley IM Secretary Robert A. Jenks, a graduate student in the Arts & Sciences, said that he decided to start the poll with fellow Dudley resident Jonathan T. Ledlie because they felt that amateur crew had been important to many students...
...central coast, Sears bought a new board and drove to Mexico again the next winter, this time staying for six weeks, long enough to get back into great paddling shape and for his old skills to click. The next winter he took his wife, a former librarian and amateur painter, and stayed for six weeks again. The next winter they doubled their time, enjoying the waves and the migrating gray whales, and they have been spending three months in Mexico each winter ever since. Sears does not surf when he's at home in Morro Bay, but in Baja...
...piece serves as a self-aware and necessary comment on the tone that many of the following political diatribes display. To the average film viewer, the piercing political tirades voiced by filmmakers often seemed unjustified. While the shortcomings inherent to amateur creations often undermined their credibility, Beibin is fully committed to the political causes of the work in the name of finding an outlet for genuine protest...
Overall, many disorganized montages allowed amateur filmmakers to release their pent up liberal zealousness. While often the films might appear incoherent and poorly edited—one that stood out in particular was a clip of a man in an ambiguous animal costume shouting to visitors at the 2005 presidential inauguration---they were fresh and a clear break from the mainstream. Though the scattered selection eschewed the finesse of commercial filmmaking, the festival nevertheless stood steadfastly by the pure punk spirit of Beibin’s vision...