Word: ineptness
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There is no doubt that the Agriculture Department proved remarkably inept in the Russian deal; it erred on at least four counts...
...like Moore, suffer a sort of weightlessness, a lack of humanness, which is what Sean Connery as 007 lent previous Bond adventures. The raunchy adolescent humor that helped audiences giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever is rare and surprisingly inept. The vehicular chases that have proved commercially successful in other films are here rendered five times, which is four more than any movie needs. Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water, the film is both perfunctory and predictable-leaving the mind free to wander into the question...
Thus, inauspiciously, did seven years of military rule end in Argentina. In a sense, the troubled mood of inauguration day symbolized the difficult task of governing that faces Cámpora in the days ahead. Under the heavy-handed and economically inept military government of General Lanusse, inflation was a staggering 80% last year, third highest in the world (after Chile and Uruguay...
What should the President do to exert leadership? Lead. We are in a very, very critical position as a nation. We have to reassure everyone at home and abroad that this country is not just standing still. He was going to reorganize the State Department. It's totally inept. Nothing has been done. I visited the Pentagon last week. I was appalled...
David Newman and Robert Benton did this in the original script, and all the trimmings were fine -- good jokes, nice lyrics, lively and interesting score. But they intended Superman to be inept and endearing, so they wrote it in. What this Quincy House production does, no less endearingly, is extend the clumsiness to the whole presentation. Needless as this amateur touch is, it doesn't really detract from an evening that had little more than laugh potential anyway. Harvard audiences seem sympathetic to plays that have some rollicking enthusiasm, and no one minded much that the technical, orchestral, and choreographic...