Word: amateurness
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...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...
...capture the wild card berth and then win the World Series. Baseball is more competitive now than at any point in its history, and it has been—gasp—free agency that has contributed to that parity, along with the 1965 introduction of the amateur draft and the divisional expansion of 1995. Since free agency was first granted to players in 1976, 18 different teams have won the World Series, whereas only 11 different teams won titles between...
...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work--and much more--in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business ... The meaning of the tasks performed by white-collar employees and executives often becomes lost in the complexities of giant corporations...
Similarly, Mel Gibson and Michael Moore launched movies outside the big studios, deploying amateur word of mouth to juice the box office. The audiences caught on--showing up not just to see movies but to send a message. They weren't alone. In the spring, the mayor of San Francisco began his doomed assault against the existing order by simply declaring he would ignore the law and grant marriage licenses to gay couples in city hall. Thousands lined up day after day for a simple civil rite most Americans--Britney Spears included--tend to take for granted. They knew...
You’ve heard the hogwash—that Ripken, McGwire and Sosa rescued the game of baseball from the depths of the 1994 MLB players’ strike; that, without a baby Jordan, basketball remains in danger; that the early exit strategies of star college ballers render amateur athletics obsolete...