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...skill carry his songs alone. Offbeat, ambiguous images pop up in "That's Why God Made the Movies," "Oh, Marion" and "God Bless the Absentee," adding color to the vaguely melancholy feel of the verses. Simon has his occasional missteps--"How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns" is an awkward hook line no matter how cleverly it scans. But the album is more than redeemed by compelling lines like "Who was the witness to the dream/Who kissed my eyes and saw the scream...Nobody...
...down. Audiences are ready to forgive far more than in other forms; they want to feel naive. People still sigh when they see Olivier in Wuthering Heights speak some desperately improbable lines, and act out one of the silliest (ah, but oh so wonderful) endings in screen history. The awkward moments, the stutters and stumbles, the slow buildup of courage, all add to the movie. Rarely does a director find a more willing audience. There probably isn't a more universal human desire than to live life constantly on the precipice of a love affair...
...suggested outside candidates "to a manageable size," with the help of five faculty members. The group of five aided in a "very intensive, systematic review" of possible outside candidates, Bok said, adding that they did not discuss possible candidates from within the faculty because "it would have been awkward to talk about insiders...
...catalogue the 1970s. Like a poet writing about the break-up of a love affair the day after it has ended, however, Mazursky lacks the perspective for such an effort. In fact, the director/author of the film must intervene and fill in gaps in the plot with narration. This awkward device never makes the viewer feel comfortable. He's making a movie about a decade only nine months behind us. He tries to show us ourselves, and we're not supposed to like...
...piece seems to conform to an architectural setting. Yet Miss prohibits this fusion of art and environment. The piece is asymmetrical; its axis runs perpendicular to the entranceway of the museum, and the horizontal elements are not aligned with those of the building. The sculpture strains toward an awkward autonology further accentuated by the contrast between its stick like construction and the stone interior of the courtyard...