Word: misbegotten
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...show succeeds not because of what it does, but because of what it doesn’t do. Unlike a lot of misbegotten Mainstages, it has been neither overthought nor hastily wrought. Blocker has given us a refreshingly safe interpretation of Stoppard’s play, has cast it with uniformly talented actors, and hasn’t tried to pass off a mass of steel scaffolding as a set. If the show wasn’t a little on the long side, I wouldn’t recognize it as a Mainstage...
...when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that it is "a religion, a disease, a nightmare, a paradise for the misbegotten" - applies with equal acuity to smoking...
...biography is in many ways akin to a marriage, its success depending on what each person brings to the mix, in the compatibility or lack thereof between author and subject. Not since Bob Woodward's misbegotten attempt to tell the story of John Belushi in Wired has a biographer been so ill suited to write the life of a creative artist as Daniels is to write about Lester Young. When it comes to illuminating the background, he can be fitfully incisive, but when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after...
...protection. Take the RealPlayer shareware, a media streaming program so offensively retrograde that a million monkeys with a million keyboards with a million 1’s and 0’s could never devise it. During one illicit encounter with the RealPlayer.exe file brought on by a misbegotten attempt to watch “Bootylicious: In concert,” I responsibly unchecked all the boxes that would have signed me up for daily newsletters, news updates, update letters, dating news, upletter dates, and finally, that salacious e-menage-a-trois, “third-party offers...
...Americans may judge the Clinton administration harshly for its lack of energy policy - for a failure to promote energy conservation and for its misbegotten ideological refusal to develop domestic sources of energy, especially in Alaska. Americans may rediscover, the hard way, that oil does not gush from a hydrant down the block. Either you cut down on the use of oil, or you find alternative energy sources, or you drill for more oil on land you control. You don't rely on the good will of the Arab oil states...