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...whole, the acting in The Mandrake is inexpert and inept. It is a high school production with pretensions. Cabranes-Grant has clearly given a lot of thought to the mannerisms and orations of his cast, but the actors ultimately prove incapable of lifting this direction out of the realm of the artificial...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Unjustified Machiavelli | 4/20/1990 | See Source »

...have been given land titles by the Sandinistas but also to reassure Ortega and the other comandantes who have made their homes in some of Managua's finest houses. Plainly Chamorro wants to drive home her message that the Sandinistas will not be punished for their ten years of inept rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Revolution: The Sandinistas | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Dona Violeta's early campaign appearances were frightfully inept. Confronted with issues she had not mastered, she often berated her questioners or deferred to running mate Virgilio Godoy. By January she had learned to stick to prepared speeches and emphasize her personal appeal. Her radiant smile and motherly concern warmed Nicaraguans chilled by a decade of Ortega's martial scowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamorro: More Than Just a Name? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...techniques. "My effort is to turn everybody I know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liz Smith | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...believing they are capable of doing so." Conspiracy theories insult blacks by suggesting that they are hapless victims powerless to resist a racist scheme. They imply that the African Americans who have become mayors and police chiefs in dozens of cities are either willing participants in the plot or inept dupes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genocide Mumbo Jumbo | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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