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...island of Tasmania. One of them, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, believes that the Garden of Eden is located on the island and seeks to prove this as part of a great effort to debunk modern scientific theories of geology and evolution. Also on board is Dr. Thomas Potter, another amateur philosopher with a strange pet theory. Potter is a systematic racist, out to classify and pigeonhole what he believes to be the world's inferior strains of humankind. These men have a terrible surprise in store for them. Tasmania's British colonists have been warring with the Aborigines...
...Awful" does not begin to describe it. He heaved the ball one-handed from his hip like an amateur shot-putter. It looked like the kind of shot an eight-year-old YMCA player tosses up because he is petrified of the five eight-year-olds on the other team, who are all waving their arms in his face...
...rate. On the other hand, Stillman's postulate that CBS wanted to keep crusty septuagenarian Rudy Boesch to hang on to older viewers - the most actively despised demographic in television - is weird, to say the least. (CBS bought "Survivor" largely to win a younger audience.) Being a rank legal amateur, I'll leave it to trained professionals - or another set of legal rank amateurs drawn from the San Francisco jury pool - to decide whether Stacey has a case. But her lawsuit raises a couple of interesting questions. What constitutes "rigging" a reality game show anyway? And does anybody care...
...alternative jockdom, a macho loserhood. Getting knocked out by a pro boxer, showing off his scrawny, bruised and welted body, Knoxville shows us he's man enough to get his butt kicked. Witness too the fad among teenage boys who, in Fight Club fashion, stage their own real-life amateur-wrestling contests in their backyards, complete with deliberate cuts and chair smashing, in which the point is how much abuse you can take, not mete out. MTV, however, announces on Jackass that it won't accept stunt videos from home viewers. (It's not as if doing that ever...
...hello to Baby Jet. Raburn, a longtime amateur aviator who got bored with his life as a computer-products developer, wants to produce the world's first affordable--at least to some--personal jet. Raburn intends to price his twin-engine, five-seat Eclipse 500 at a mere $837,500. The popular Cessna CJ1, by comparison, costs more than $3.7 million. "If they really can stay under $1 million, they will set the biz-jet market on its ear," says Warren Morningstar, spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association...