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...White House -- opposed the new best-of- five-games round of play-offs. The Major League Players Association had balked at an earlier proposal to have two wild-card teams in each league compete with the winners of the two existing divisions. The three-division plan represents an awkward compromise. Granted, three divisions in each league will finally bring geographic logic to baseball: no longer will schoolchildren grow up believing that St. Louis is really in the East and Atlanta in the West. But reconfiguring the two 14-team leagues into three divisions each is also inherently unfair: there will...
...taken her by surprise, but she had not spent any length of time in the capital before. It is a city that loves a character, and the early profiles of her Florida upbringing invited an instant mythology. Here she came, trailing swamp stories and reptiles, a self-described awkward old maid with a sensible name and big, sensible shoes, a bracing contrast to the precious professionals that the city seasonally absorbs. "I can be impatient," she told reporters last week, preferring to skewer herself rather than let them do it for her. "I do have a temper. My mother accused...
...Porter be called a master of figure painting? In truth, no; there was always something awkward about his handling of the human body, a Yankee stiffness that prevented him from emulating the sensuous fluency of Bonnard. The figures in his paintings are always in the right place, formally speaking. He was a wonderful arranger, with a stringent and finely honed eye for the needs and eccentricities of pictorial composition. But at the same time, his paintings don't suggest much feel for the movement and solidity of the body. His work prefers sociability to sensuality -- a trait shared...
...doctor, Marty Sterling, is given a sympathetic portrayal by Michael Stone. Stone's endearingly awkward body language and shy behavior make the audience like Marty even as it sometimes cringes at his treatment of Janie...
...preserve his reputation. "No matter what I do, or where or when I do it, I feel the eyes of others on me, judging me," admits the man who may have taken his symbolic role as the only top-ranked black in a white sport too seriously. There are awkward moments in this book. Countering inevitable speculation about the source of HIV infection, he feels the need to testify that he has never been unfaithful to his wife and has never had a homosexual experience...