Word: ineptness
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...give me much a choice of role models. Which could you look up to: (a) Bruce Lee, a violent martial artist with a bad accent, (b) Mr. Miyagi, an exotic martial artist with a bad accent, or (c) Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles, a socially inept math/science nerd with a bad accent...
...program calls for creating 1,000 permanent housing units, 100 job-training slots and 400 places in substance-abuse treatment facilities. The government will contribute $20 million in three installments over two years, but only if the District meets strict performance standards. Local skeptics question whether the inept D.C. bureaucracy can manage the project efficiently. Cisneros, however, fears partisan bickering on Capitol Hill could delay the program's launch until next fall...
...such recovered memories are indeed false, where do they originate? From two sources, critics say: the popular culture and misguided or inept therapy. Sensational tales about recovered memories of incest have been grist for celebrity-magazine cover stories. And repressed-memory incest and satanic- ritual-abuse victims have been featured prominently on Geraldo, Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphael and other daytime TV talk shows...
What has exasperated Packwood's colleagues most is his inept handling of the ethics committee's inquiry. First he concealed the existence of his diaries from the committee. When the committee demanded all 8,200 pages, he tried to intimidate fellow Senators by warning that the release of further pages would expose other legislators' sexual dalliances...
When Gus becomes interested in renovating andreopening an abandoned bowling alley with four ofhis friends but is unable to contribute his shareof the down payment, the idea dawns on him that ifLee were to get married he could keep the alimonymoney for himself. Gus' inept but supposedlyhumorous matchmaking occupies the core of themovie. When Gus is first persuading Lee to consentto a date which he sets up, he is mistaken by awoman in the park for 'Mr. Wonderful,' a man froma matchmaking ad whom she, ('Funny Face'), waswaiting to meet. The film takes its name from thiscutesy, artificial scene...