Word: ineptness
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...locker room before heading back to fight through teammates to get to Carlesimo again and yell "I'm going to kill you! You better get me off this team, or that's what I'm going to do." It was the most dramatic moment of the Warriors' inept season and landed Latrell not only a canceled contract, a shredded endorsement deal with Converse and a yearlong ban from the NBA, but also the finger wagging of every sports pundit in the country...
This has only exacerbated the frivolity of political life in our nation's capital, the most ostentatious example being campaign finance proceedings. On Tuesday afternoon, the bill meant to overhaul our country's obviously inept campaign-financing system was left floundering in nowhere land because the majority of Senators chose not to end debate on the competing proposals, effectively preventing a decision on the legislation. Let me reiterate: the campaign-finance laws, despite their obvious disfunctionality, are not being changed...
...mission to the Middle East [WORLD, Sept. 15] missed the central point. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has no choice but to re-embrace Hamas, the group responsible for the Ben Yehuda bombing, and other firebrands, because his life is at stake. The Palestinian populace has rejected him and his inept internal policies. Arafat was once a hero to the average Palestinian, but no longer. Lacking ballots, the frustrated populace may resort to bullets. Arafat knows this, and his reaction has been to sacrifice everything the Palestinian movement has achieved to save his own skin. Unless Albright and her experts...
...features, the script attempts to take on too much, sacrificing narrative focus for stylistic flair. What starts out as a younger, less bleak '50s version of After Dark My Sweet quickly turns into a meandering hodgepodge, alternating between generic buddy flick (obligatory scene in which cool guy teaches socially inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax...
Today film scholars ignore Kramer's work the better to pore over Ed Wood's bizarrely inept Plan 9 from Outer Space. And TV writers, instead of challenging themselves and the medium, mostly want to rip off the latest hit. "What do you feel like rippin' off tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like rippin...