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...whole, the acting in The Mandrake is inexpert and inept. It is a high school production with pretensions. Cabranes-Grant has clearly given a lot of thought to the mannerisms and orations of his cast, but the actors ultimately prove incapable of lifting this direction out of the realm of the artificial...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Unjustified Machiavelli | 4/20/1990 | See Source »

...angel ic, which makes a less convincing bow in one or two pieces) is filtered through quite a lot of art history, from Mini to the ornery, meticulously crafted constructions of the late H.C. Westermann. His main weakness is a penchant for cockeyed whimsy, which seems to be an inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intensifications of Nature | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...four years that most sports fans in the U.S. pay attention to international snowball fights. So even though he was a speed-skating idol in Amsterdam long before 1980, Eric Heiden of the Golden Skates was an astounding discovery at home. One charm of the Winter Olympics is the inexpert opinion, maybe not completely mistaken, that the athletes in these neglected sports come close to some lost ideal, possibly even amateurism. Against a bright backdrop of ignored ski jumpers trying to fly with Finns, and irrepressible luge racers careering down icy troughs, young hockey players good enough to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear the Way For the U.S.A. | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...income of $75,000. An early poll showed 43% of Wilson's backers in his camp because of antipathy toward Brown, and the youthful-looking mayor has tried to make the Governor the issue, with uneven success. Wilson has a solid reputation as a municipal manager. But his inexpert handling of Brown's attacks has cost him his once sizable lead, and the race now seems close to a dead heat, with each side hoping that the other will blunder in the waning days of the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Senate | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...article "Boom Time in Venture Capital" [Aug. 10], the securities division of my office has observed an increase in the number of inexperienced companies seeking initial financing through public offerings. Often the low stock prices of these enterprises make them attractive to inexpert investors who cannot monitor their performance. Consequently, these companies are mostly not appropriate investments for the small investor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Controllers | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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