Word: botches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather a kind of cross between a people's palace and a pinball machine-a transcultural, interdisciplinary omnivorium. The real question was how the place might work as a museum. On seeing "Paris-New York," one wishes the question had not been asked. The show is a curatorial botch...
...picture is a boring botch in every way, unconsciously exemplifying the film's title. When the first domino in a row is somebody like Stanley Kramer, you can count on him to fall down clumsily and knock down all the rest...
Still in the first inning, Charlie Santos-Buch's infield hit was heaved into the stands by Perry, allowing Halas to score the final Crimson run of the inning. Harvard got two more unearned runs in the second, thanks mainly to another botch job by Columbo on a Singleton grounder...
...DECIDE to kill her for the money, and the rest of the film is a series of asinine murder plots that they botch through sheer stupidity. You've seen it all before. The poisonous snake that turns out to be harmless. The failure to drown her in a birdbath. The leaky casket, cast out to sea, that deposits her unharmed on a beach, still in a fog. Drawn as close as possible to the rich-broad stereotype, she's as deficient in human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse...
...professionals have made a botch of it, in Percy's view: the transformational grammarians, bickering over esoteric aspects of an arcane theory, have lost sight of the forest for the trees. And they've lost sight of language, too--the proper concerns of linguists have been parceled out to specialists in psychology, anthropology, theology and so forth. Percy feels he is the man to bring order to all this mess...