Word: ineptness
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...time, a legion of reporters speculated about what Nitze and Kvitsinsky said in their confab. Blessing clearly felt the higher calling was to evoke what they should have said. His Soviet negotiator, far from a typical xenophobe, is worldly, urbane and cynical. His American diplomat is stuffy, didactic, socially inept but fervently idealistic about averting a nuclear horror. The two grow close, if not quite friendly, in their occasional walks between formal negotiations. The Soviet is able to be blunt when he explains to the American why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful...
...want the white press to review his work, then he's destined to remain outside of the mainstream, and we're sentenced to miss out on an original talent. But if he wants to be treated like every other filmmaker, he's destined to be misunderstood, as Maslin's inept analysis proves...
Alex (Glenda Walker) lends an Oriental flavor to the play with her talk of the mythical land of Kinkaja, where monkeys, sacred to some natives but delectable to others, threaten the stability of His Majesty's Government. Walker's performance is natural and unaffected. Unfortunately, it is also inept at times. But at least she remembers her lines, which is more than Schellenberg and Robinson...
...Decrying materialism in South Florida is not exactly a great undertaking of social criticism. This may be a problem in some circles, although perhaps not all elderly people are quite so "dried-out," crotchety, and inept at driving as those we find in Mr. Morris's hackneyed portrayal. My own Jewish grandparents, who live in Fort Lauderdale, the very belly of Mr. Morris's beast, are actually quite capable drivers and, strangely enough, have even shown signs of outright altruism and intellect. I hope that their virtues might serve as a counter-example to the underlying theory of Mr. Morris...
Though Mengistu is widely blamed for the disaster, the series of famines actually began in 1973, under the inept and autocratic Emperor Haile Selassie. Far from seeking help, the Ethiopian government in the 1970s strenuously denied that any famine existed, and U.N. officials diplomatically remained silent about the tragedy...