Word: ineptly
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...soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game. The locals are cruel, cunning and know their soggy country. The Guardsmen-except for two, a city sharpster (Keith Carradine) and a tough transfer from Texas (Powers Boothe)-are inept, panicky and, in at least one case, mentally unstable. The odds on surviving the murderously vengeful swamp rats are obviously short-so obvious and so short, in fact, that the film eventually becomes more of an exercise in masochism than suspense...
...economy's dismal performance under Carter cannot entirely explain Reagan's appeal to working class voters, nor can the ex-president's apparently inept handling of foreign policy. At least as much of the answer lies with the vast divergence in economic conditions and resulting political interests among the nation's workers. Painting stagnation in the economy as a consequence of excessive taxation and regulation, while blaming inflation on social welfare programs and the government deficit, Reagan provided a vision of future policies that could indeed jibe with the interests of a large group or organized labor...
...whom Haig dislikes. A scholarly former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, Neumann was vice chairman of the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies when Allen, a founder of the center, picked him to head Reagan's transition team at the State Department. Haig considered the team inept and unduly ideological, and dismissed most of its members as soon as he took office. Neumann survived-but without ever gaining the Secretary's trust...
Considering his box office strength, one would think that Pryor could command the creation of vehicles to match his gift. Or perhaps he likes being the best thing about a picture, since he functioned as his own producer on Bustin' Loose, and it is, if anything, more inept -certainly more overtly sentimental -than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fianc...
...audiences. There was a patriotic monologue for country stations, a novelty record for the Top-40 market, a vocal version of Bolero, a Jack Benny-type radio show for the nostalgia network. Each track was, of course, meticulously uncommercial. The Brooks character was eager to sell out, but so inept that nobody wanted...