Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first six months on the job, Gicquel recalls, he was only an actor playing the role of anchorman. "I must have seemed a bit awkward," he admits, "like I was wearing my Sunday suit." But, "little by little, I began to understand that it was necessary only to be like I really was." Much of Gicquel's appeal seems to lie in a kind of Gallic avuncular gloom, and an ability to register an appropriate flicker of sorrow, anger, levity or weariness in reaction to whatever news he is reading-the same reactions that viewers presumably are having...
...production provide the real thrills of the evening. Santo Loquasto's unit set looks great and functions nicely, the costumes are imaginative and attractive, and the notion of putting both American and German trenches in the orchestra pit clicks, even if the scenes involving the doomed soldiers are mostly awkward and extraneous. There is one nice a capella number for the soldier boys, and an almost-touching dream sequence in which a temporary truce allows the opposite sides to get to know each other. All in all, King of Hearts comes off as an extremely slick production, calculatingly geared...
...truth was that the Chinese Chairman's visit came at a notably awkward time for his Iranian hosts. For months the country had been rocked by religious rioting, culminating with the burning of an Abadan moviehouse last month in which 377 people were killed. Last week violence continued: Muslim youths battled police in 15 cities, leaving eleven persons dead. The trouble was fomented by the leaders of Iran's 32 million Shi'ite Muslims, who have grown increasingly restive as the Shah has pursued a rigorous modernization campaign for his ancient country. The motive power...
...interested in some "personal statements" about the state of the movie business, contemporary issues and the star and director themselves that they manage to tuck in along the way. It perhaps need not be added that these are of a piece with the rest of A Dream of Passion-awkward, pretentious and empty...
...thing, he spent his awkward years in full public view. His father's influence landed him a job in his mid-20s as an assistant counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Then and during a later stint as the relentless harrower of Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby's rough image was frozen forever in many minds: an Irish Torquemada with a face like a fist and a voice out of Warner Bros, cartoons. He ran J.F.K.'s 1960 campaign in a manner that suggested, reasonably enough, that winning mattered most. As an activist Attorney General with a brother...