Word: inept
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Bunny Mother. While many whites cite early rising hours, traffic problems and inept teachers as a reasonable basis for their objections to busing, blacks see them only as rationalizations for deeper concerns. "There will always be a reason to mask the sexual fears," argues Fort Laucer-dale Attorney Alcee L. Hastings...
...Cowboys sounds like a natural. Good premise, good Southwest locations, and John Wayne. Things go wrong, though, because of Mark Rydell's lallygagging direction and a remarkably inept, even vicious script...
...materialism. "Looking back, how well one sees that, from the time of its birth, historical messianism based on dialectical materialism contained the seeds of all the woe later generations were to harvest." The notion of "scientifically" established laws of history is completely incompatible with Monod's new philosophy. Equally inept is the attempt to revise that history. Rather, Monod suggests that that ideology must simply be abandoned...
...film version of Kurt Vonnegut's recent play Happy Birthday, Wanda June brings to the screen for the first time a widely read and respected writer. Since Happy Birthday, Wanda June is an especially inept movie, it would be comforting to report that Vonnegut has been victimized by the Hollywood barbarians, his work vulgarized beyond recognition. But it is not so. Vonnegut's own company (called, with inadvertent irony, Sourdough Ltd.) co-produced the film. His name appears in the traditional superstar's position above the title, implying not only box office eminence but a certain pride...
...brilliant performance by Mrs. Hicks in the debate could sway a majority of these votes but this seems highly unlikely, as well as relatively unimportant considering White's impressive lead. The controverial Congresswoman has a propensity for becoming embroiled in controversies where she comes off looking singularly inept. This happened in a televised debate before the preliminaries last September when she unintentionally reversed her position on 100 per cent tax assessment, and again yesterday at the news conference when she found herself in the embarrassing situation of confusing the role Mayor White played in the School Committee referendum controversy...