Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...identified by sentimentalists-though not by art historians-as a well-buffed study of his mistress, the Duchess of Alba. A reproduction of the portrait flashes onscreen briefly along with the titles, but this is just about the last note of authenticity in what may be the most inept movie biography since Cecil B. DeMille tore Cleopatra from the pages of history...
Sweet Bird of Youth (by Tennessee Williams) is very close to parody, but the wonder is that Williams should be so inept at imitating himself. The sex violence, the perfumed decay, the hacking domestic quarrels, the dirge of fear and self-pity, the characters who dangle in neurotic limbo-all are present-but only like so many dramatic dead cats on a cold tin roof...
...handling of the entire Argus project seems incredibly inept. From the aspersions it cast on our sincerity in participation in IGY to the questions it raises about our competence in handling any kind of international publicity, the policy adopted has provided a testimony of doubtful wisdom. When it is realized that the government was prepared to conceal the whole affair indefinitely, despite apparent Soviet knowledge of the entire theory involved, one can only wonder what secrecy in space and atomic energy really means...
Most of the fakes were submitted as originals only accidentally. As one member of the Fogg staff explained, the paintings were often gifts to their student owners. In the case of the Dufy, for example, the fraud seems innocently inept. Only a portion of the original painting is reproduced -- the portion chosen by the milk company. The painting's prominent position in the exhibition is owing at least in part, to the fact that its owner offered it late, as an after-thought...
...young Martinique native and the accidental killing of the murderer's girl friend, who is then devoured by the murderer's own dogs, might even be construed to symbolize poetic justice. But literary justice miscarried when Glissant got a prize; critics thought him an intriguing but inept writer...