Word: ineptness
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...ultimately a false answer. Though some good is done, some lives saved and changed for the better, humanitarian aid has powerful negative effects. Essentially, it places the burden of change on the individual, neglecting the social roots of his condition. The paternalism inherent in aid ("these poor folks are inept and need help") is another negative factor...
Meanwhile, observers were still trying to piece together the events that led up to the abortive right-wing coup. The attempt was so inept that some people in Lisbon speculated that the left may have deliberately stirred up violence in hopes of provoking a premature right-wing effort to seize power so that it could be easily crushed. In an ironic twist, former President António de Spínola, the alleged leader of the plot, wound up in exile in Brazil along with former Dictator Marcello Caetano, whose regime he helped topple last year. In an interview...
...promised to be the most important such meeting in years. Principal topic on the six-day agenda was the compromesso storico -the "historic compromise" under which for the first time the Communists seek partnership in an Italian government. As a result of economic disorder and disenchantment over an inept succession of center-left coalition governments dominated by the Christian Democrats, Communist hopes have never been brighter...
...ruins At Long Last Love. The movie would be quite bad enough without her But her clodhopper dancing and mynah bird singing contribute substantially to the downfall of the film. Her co-star, Burt Reynolds, is just as bad--he whispers rather than sings and his dancing is so inept that Bogdanovich has cropped his body at the knee most of the time. The rest of the cast--Bogdanovich standbys like Madeline Kahn and Mildred Natwick--do better, and Eileen Brennan is even good. It's a pity she didn't get top billing...
...past three years she prepped as co-host on a local Los Angeles TV talk show. Encouraging absolutely no comparison with Today's Barbara Walters, Doty emphasizes that "Stephanie is not a journalist"-a fact instantly clear as she blew most of her bubble in an inept interview with Psychiatrists Karl and Roy Menninger of Topeka's Menninger Clinic. (Sample query: "Do you treat them all the same way whether they come kicking or screaming...