Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard cash to the evocative vocabulary of traffic, tax, protection, quota, levy, duties, or subsidies while compiling a third and wholly different literary style (pious, holy, prudent, sterling, gorsoons, lassies, maidens, sacred, traditional, forefathers, mothers, grandmothers, ancestors, deeprooted, olden, venerable, traditions, Gaelic, timeworn, and immemmorial) to dodge the more awkward social, moral and political problems that any country might, with considerable courage, hope to solve in a century of ruthless political thinking. The ambivalence, once perceived, demanded a totally new approach (as opposed to the previous romanticism...
...real star of the film is a great deal of imposing scenery and the process in which it is filmed. Todd-AO uses a large curved screen which, however, has a less awkward shape than that used in Cinemascope. The great advantage of the process is that objects in the background are every bit as clear and in focus as those near the camera. It is far the most impressive of the recent proliferation of movie gadgets, and alone is nearly worth the Saxon Theater's outrageous prices...
...lost little of its tenuous, dreamlike quality. As a homely, stammering drudge who is trying to reclaim her no-account husband just out of jail, Actress Stanley gave a sunlit performance. Like a hand picking up broken glass, she limned her character with tentative little twitches, awkward hesitations and mute expectancy. For TV's dramatic ladies, the unhappy score at the end of their week was only one little-noticed hit and four glaring errors...
Alfred Kaufman's set is awkward and careless, perhaps the keynotes of the show. It is not that these people are new-comers which makes this production fail, but that they have reached for the grandiose effects without any concern for the numerous details of scene and character that build up the effective image of heightened reality which is the heart of theatre...
Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...