Word: ineptness
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Like Falwell, the members of PTL's new board are no strangers to controversy. James Watt resigned as Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary after offending several minority groups, and was recently fired by a Native American tribe that claimed his work as its lawyer was inept. Evangelist Bailey Smith, while president of the Southern Baptist Convention, gained brief notoriety by declaring, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." Retired Televangelist Rex Humbard was once rebuked by the Securities and Exchange Commission for selling unregistered securities, and was taken to task in the press for spending too much...
...rebels, including $27 million in humanitarian aid sent in 1985. The measure, which would withhold the $40 million remaining of the $100 million appropriated last year, was an artful ploy linking opposition to the contras with congressional disgust over the Tower commission's revelations about the Administration's inept and probably illegal efforts on behalf of the contras. "Before we send another dime to the contras," said the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat David Bonior of Michigan, "we must know where the previous funds have gone...
...elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly in front of papier-mache reconstructions. Even so, fiction that dovetails with fact remains alluring to authors and readers alike...
...engaging new work at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn., persuasively imagines the human fabric of a similar fictional enterprise. Blessing's conceit is that the Soviet negotiator, far from a stereotypical xenophobe, is worldly, glib and cynical, while the American newcomer is stuffy, dogged, socially inept but passionately idealistic about averting a nuclear horror. This divergence triggers a very funny opening scene: the Soviet makes friendly overtures -- "Formality is simply anger with its hair combed" -- while the American priggishly resists and snaps, "I am disappointed by this. I thought you were more professional...
Robison's husband is also a writer, who recently published a collection of short stories. Robison also has two teenage daughter from a former marriage. "I never hesitate to use them for material," she says. "I did one thing right. I convinced them early on that I was inept and pitiful, so they wait on me and do a lot for me-most children don't. They're used to an unconventional life...