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That theory, put into practice, made James an extraordinarily subtle and supple critic. He could extol writers like Balzac and Dickens, whose narrative methods struck him as awkward but whose stories enchanted him all the same; he could meticulously detect aesthetic flaws in the works of George Eliot and Anthony Trollope and still commend their unique achievements...
...trumpet, the catatonic blond girl--in their mingled density and strangeness, they seem like quotations from some permanent layer of German consciousness. All the more so because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage. His figures, with their polelike limbs and mouths like gashes, their awkward eloquence of gesture (long on pathos and aggression, short on grace), step right out of late medieval German sculpture, and so do the claustrophobic spaces they inhabit--shallow, pleated, distorted into shoving and butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep...
...Data Instruments, a maker of electronic sensors that does $1 million in annual business with Japan, was delighted with a seminar on the Japanese use of silence. Confused by the pauses that cropped up when he traveled with Japanese associates, Colbert learned that what strikes an American as an awkward halt in conversation may be a refreshing respite to a Japanese. Said Colbert: "Now I wonder, 'What did they think of all my jabbering...
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE NO. 1. Walter Mondale's unexpected humor; President Reagan's awkward pauses; Moderator Barbara Walters' lecturing of the audience: between two dull conventions and a runaway election, this face-off to chart the course of the Free World was the political year's most interesting TV news event...
...series' domain is the subcontinental divide that separates those worlds. The action begins with an awkward mating dance between a shy English expatriate, Daphne Manners (Susan Wooldridge), and a tall, dark, handsome Indian, Hari Kumar (Art Malik). Straightforward enough, so it seems. But "in India," as one character points out, "nothing is self-evident." The exceedingly British Manners lives with an Indian lady she calls Auntie, and longs to make herself at home in India; the Indian-seeming Kumar has just emerged from a previous incarnation at an exclusive English boarding school, and finds himself an alien...