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...misses, marring the first set’s first half, were as mystifying as they were distressing. Garret’s quartet suffered from amateurish balance problems as Dave’s percussion drowned out Brown and bassist Vincente Archer. This lack of tonal center vaulted the frontman into a series of frenzied solos. One of Garrett’s new tunes, as yet untitled, started with a longing, mysterious texture and then built in intensity as layers of complexity mounted. Then Garrett took his solo and turned the piece into a chaotic, screaming mess that had absolutely nothing...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unhappy People | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...words, it could be the perfect respite for the overworked Harvard student. It is diappointing, then, that the current Loeb Mainstage production, under the direction of Anthony J. Gabriele ’03, fails to do justice to even the play’s most obvious charms in his amateurish and misguided presentation...

Author: By Ian P. Campbell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Andronicus’ Fails in Titanic Fashion | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore Sleepers | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...Vegas casinos in one New Year’s Eve heist. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and company used the production as a vehicle to continue on the screen what was their mantra in real life: boozing, gambling and chasing women. Juvenile, meandering and amateurish to a fault, the original film contained so few redemptive elements that only the most dedicated of audiences found the film appealing. So it’s a mystery why director Steven Soderbergh, the film industry’s latest (but certainly very deserving) “it?...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Always Double Down on 'Eleven' | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...even then, nothing about Murphy was the least bit amateurish. The same is true today...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy Helps Crimson Get Back To The Basics | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

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