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Dimbleby captured Charles talking to residents of a decrepit public-housing project in Birmingham and mixing with unemployed young people attending a training program in Norfolk funded by one of his charitable trusts. He was also shown as an intrepid foreign traveler. On camera he projected an awkward charm, both endearing and genuine. In a Bedouin tent on the edge of the Arabian desert, he sipped camel's milk from a plastic cup. In Mexico he picked at a gooey plate of lamb. "I always dread having something like that," he said, "in case it is laced with chilies, which...
...that is one of the highlights of "The Shadow"--the wit. Most action-adventure movies have problems with transitions, muffing their scene switches and storyline changes. "The Shadow" covers up the potentially awkward moments with witty lines, allowing for a smoothly flowing movie--and a fair amount of laughs...
...suspicion about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment, and the result was the awkward standoff. "That's the most distressing part to us," says Tzakis. "We all have the feeling that Benny has slipped out from under...
...some of his best stagings here, as have Trevor Nunn and Jonathan Miller. But the key to Glyndebourne's success is the dozen or so coaches who prepare each opera meticulously. Beneficiaries liken their teaching to having a superb master class every day. Christie notes that "coaches have an awkward job mediating between the conductor and the singer. They need a feeling for what's best for the composer." Their ranks tend to be drawn from people on their way to becoming conductors or from would-be singers who just didn't have a good enough voice. Martin Isepp...
...little awkward when some of myGerman friends asked me where I had served duringthe war," Wyman says...