Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticism. Yet despite its inauspicious underpinnings, Inserts manages to transcend a mediocre script to reveal a powerful cinematic drama. Director-writer John Byrum, shooting on a three-week schedule and a minimal budget, has done what all the hotshots for the American Film Theater in many dull and inept efforts could not do--he has preserved the excitement and immediacy of drama, on film...
...Ford forces thought so too. Until the polls closed, they went all out to make up for the President's inept organizing early in the race. The situation was saved mainly by Stuart Spencer, the savvy professional campaign organizer from California who is Ford's political director. Spencer, 49, managed Reagan's winning gubernatorial campaign in 1966. The White House recruited him in September to take over authority for the Ford election committee's day-to-day operations from inexperienced Chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway, who now serves essentially as coordinator of campaign activities...
There are minor historical howlers, and the lighting is so inept that in one key scene Lombard's shadow falls on Gable's face, blocking out his reactions...
...this point, Hoban wisely refrains from offering a madcap chase sequence replete with careening police cars and lovably inept thieves. The escapade is indeed comic, but only in the ease with which it is pulled off. The turtle keeper does not simply agree to look the other way while his charges are stolen; he packs them into traveling crates himself. Their mission routinely accomplished, William and Neaera find that no one has noticed...
...ratty garret and an army barracks. Several young men and women of working-class origin drift in. Their teacher, Allott (Kevin Conway), has come earlier, as has Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said of a certain novel: a way "to kill time for those who like it better dead...