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Culture buffs are well catered to, and there is always a varied program of events, ranging from world-class concerts to local amateur dramatic productions.
It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.
(He is not, of course, an amateur.
The story, based on Homer Hickam Jr.'s memoir Rocket Boys , follows a few backwoods kids in the 1950s who use amateur rocketry as a steppingstone to college scholarships and an escape from the coal mines where their fathers work.
In an editorial, it put the blame for the present impasse in the negotiations firmly on Arafat, who, it said, makes "Netanyahu's delaying skills seem almost amateur."