Word: ineptness
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Extraordinarily Inept. Mitchell's "decelerating rate of increase" is not to be discounted entirely; however misleading, it does represent progress of a sort-if the trend continues. But Nixon and Mitchell can take little credit for the improvement, just as they could not logically blame the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations for the rising crime rates of the early and middle 1960s. Crime is overwhelmingly the concern of local police agencies. Apart from trying to set up a framework of public order, and occasional FBI assistance, there is little the Federal Government can do to aid local law-enforcement agencies...
...checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
...under a double handicap. Because they are inquisitive by trade, they are usually assumed to be agents working for the CIA. Or, equally bothersome, they are harassed by KGB agents who try to pump them for information. Two years ago, TIME Washington Correspondent William Mader came across an unusually inept operative while he was in Prague. As Mader recounts...
...last half of the game was a sparring match between the Crimson defense and an inept Northeastern offensive squad...
...from the Revolutionary War era. Also new is Lidsville. It is a loud and noisy half-hour telling about a kid who took a header into a giant top hat and ended up in a land called Lidsville, inhabited by, of all things, hats. Head bad guy is an inept wizard named Whoo-Doo, who calls his minions "stupid" and classifies them as "little creeps." Jackson 5, still another cartoon offering, features make-believe adventures of a real-life singing group. Not coincidentally, the series is produced in association with Motown Record Corp., which records the real Jackson...