Word: ineptness
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...pays an average of four to six visits to a restaurant, but as many as twelve on occasion. The Times picks up between $67,000 and $73,000 a year in tabs. Her assessment is based 85% on the food, "the primary and overwhelming factor." Service counts too; the inept captain and the rude waiter are always noted...
...three of its five outings, the Tigers defensive unit has surrendered at least 35 points. On what can euphemistically be described as a porous defense. The leading tackler is strong safety Joe Warnement. Who by necessityblities frequently to alone for an inept pass rush...
Perpetual time-doers like Sy Johnson have created a self-image as a loser. They see themselves as inferior, inept, unworthy and unlovable...
...DESIGNER UNDERWEAR strikes many people as more than a trifle silly. These people contend that the significance of the "designer" in designer clothes, whether manifest in a signature, a monogram or an animal insignia, is sheer status, and they are correct. They further reason that unless you are grossly inept or the subject of peculiar conspiracies by your peers, almost no one ever sees your underwear. The act of communicating status through clothes relies on visual verification. If you can't see Mr. Jones's skivvies, they can't impress you. And if he whispered to you across the picket...
...repeated, encapsulated jokes. "Needing the eggs" is her analytic code for a type of humor she never defines, but which can be deduced to be the sober, questing, wistful quality in Allen that sends him harking after illusions. Likewise, the Take the Money and Run gag in which inept crook Virgil Stark well whittles a soap gun in jail, only to have it dissolve in the rain, becomes the officiated symbol of Allen's early humor, heavily based on such lively incongruities. To suggest a more subtle gagging which marked Allen's work from the earliest, there is The Moose...