Word: awkward
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...that the actors are not always well-served by the text. Director Mark Penney has chosen to use a translation by Eric Bentley; though the translation has many merits, its British-inflected dialogue sounds stilted when delivered with an American accent. Price and Carlson are particularly disadvantaged, since the awkward dialogue impairs their believability. (Karin Alexander, who speaks with a British accent, is the only cast member unaffected...
...that the actors are not always well-served by the text. Director Mark Penney has chosen to use a translation by Eric Bentley; though the translation has many merits, its British-inflected dialogue sounds stilted when delivered with an American accent. Price and Carlson are particularly disadvantaged, since the awkward dialogue impairs their believability. (Karin Alexander, who speaks with a British accent, is the only cast member unaffected...
Many viewers observe the awkward silence. "Usually you don't know the other people," says Uttam K. Tambar '00. "So usually you just sit there, and that's weird--cause you're used to watching T.V. with your friends...
...system remained awkward under Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, who took the helm in 1960. Bunting helped Radcliffe grow substantially, building Hilles Library in 1966 and Currier House in 1970. But despite Radcliffe's expansion during the '60s, Bunting was unable to save the college from financial instability. In the 1968-69 school year, Radcliffe's debt stood at more than $200,000; the debt tripled in the next three years...
...medley of West Side Story tunes composed the second number of the evening. "Pas de Quartre" was a hard act to follow, and the dancers of "West Side Story" seemed a little awkward and over-dramatic in their attempts to match the beautiful first number. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, accompanying the dancers throughout the first act of the program under the musical direction of Allen Feinstein, seemed under-rehearsed and ill-prepared for Bernstein's score, leaving the dancers to cover the distracting and annoying amounts of musical blunders in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the overdramatic choreography didn't do much...