Word: inept
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Woody Allen is 5 ft. 6 in., but onstage or off, when he gets through talking about himself he seems two inches high. "I am desperately inept at everything," he says. "For some reason, I think I am Dr. Johnson, which helps me with my problem." He is not referring to his psychoanalyst, who prefers not to see his name in print, but to Samuel Johnson, 1709-84. Woody is his own Boswell and reports that he has an antique gold pocket watch, he sits on a Queen Anne chair and writes with a quill pen, shaves with a straight...
...only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir A. has ripped Handel's oratorio untimely from its century, making it as operatic Victorian as he possibly can. The result is an orchestra sprawling and unkempt, singers bawling and dyspeptic, and tempi crawling and inept. (London A-4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix on its cover...
...Hincmar lived 74 years, spent 40 of them in Prankish courts and divided his time between dark treatises on predestination and darker plots. Hincmar's cold spirit is the only one that comes alive in the book and, seen in his final years, working tirelessly to bolster the inept rule of Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, he seems the only man in the century who grew half the height of Charlemagne...
Crimson coach Bill McCurdy didn't use six of his best performers in Briggs Cage last night, but the track team still managed to swamp the remarkably inept Engineers of M.I.T. The varsity swept three events out of 13 and took both relays in the 82 to 27 shellacking...
...CRIMSON in triumph flashing humbled an eager but inept WHRB staff Thursday in a free-wheeling touch football game. Not wishing to embarrass the broadcasters, the CRIMSON judiciously kept the score down...