Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditionally, in the world of sports, there are teams that are so inept that they end up being very good entertainment. When the undefeated Harvard swimming team travels to Providence and the oldest college pool in the country Saturday to face hapless Brown, the Bruins may have a great deal of trouble keeping a straight face...
...interests of seasonal dictates concerning goodwill, it can be said that this John Huston movie, which is inept in almost every regard, contains a performance of astonishing virtuosity by Bruno the Bear. He is large, brown, furry and friendly. He bites cigars from mouths gently but firmly. He guzzles bottles of beer with almost balletic finesse. He steals scenes effortlessly from Paul Newman, which is, alas, not quite so difficult as it once might have been. He fights bravely and dies heroically but prematurely-long before the movie has meandered to a close. Besides Newman, playing a desperado who dabbles...
...tail of a dragon. It is himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...
...that three old playlets of his-Act Without Words (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961)-and one new one, Not I, are currently on view at the Forum, little sister to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Thanks to a fiscally inept board of directors, the Forum is drawing its last foreseeable breath with the Beckett quartet...
UNION ORGANIZERS PROPOSED two strategies to meet this problem. A confrontational wing of the Steering Committee continued to attempt to smoke out either Wilcox or Dunlop, planning to organize after their hoped-for inept public performances. Union members confronted Dunlop at an Economics Department colloquium and asked him barbed questions about the Union and the GSAS financial aid policies...