Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north of Gore Hall and bounded by Plympton, Mt. Auburn, and Holyoke Streets; the other on a triangular lot adjoining Memorial Drive just east of McKinlock Hall. In the case of the former, however, it was advisable to alter Holyoke Street at the southern end, where there is an awkward bend in it; while the construction of the second House would be hampered, if not prevented, by Colonial Way, which cuts the triangular lot into halves...
...expert as "a man who knows pictures and can tell a copy from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...
...tall, hulking man walked on to the stage at Carnegie Hall last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano, and played superbly Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, three Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann's C Major Fantasia and the first book of Debussy preludes. He was Walter Gieseking, come from Germany for another extended tour,* and he played, as he has always played, music that he himself has tried truly and found good...
...critics say unanimously, a great musician. To appraise him seems almost impertinent and so they write of his playing in awkward, halting sentences which struggle with big words like "pellucid" and "perfection...
Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the floor superintendent gave her presents and money, she laughed and said that she was only fooling. At Keeney's Vaudeville House in Brooklyn when she was 13 she won $10 on amateur night singing "When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl...