Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anderson's plays are strongly reminiscent of another expression of his times-Socialist Realism art. Like that famed WPA stuff, Winterset incorporates bold, tradition-smashing design with a sense of social justice; and like a Socialist Realism mural in a post office, it looks heavy and over-muscled-an awkward reminder of the not-so-distant past...
Neto thereby raised an awkward question: If his army could disarm the Katangese on their way home, why could it not have blocked the invasion in the first place? The answer may be that Neto tried then to use persuasion rather than military force but found he had insufficient influence on the exiles, who have carved out a semiautonomous zone for themselves in northeastern Angola...
...chairmanship of North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus" with an estimated $100 million annual losses. When he stepped down as board chairman in 1960, the company was earning $500 million a year, with $4 billion in new plant and equipment. Easily lured back from retirement, Breech the next year became chairman of Trans World Airlines...
...money to buy his way out of MGM. Back in New York, he landed a supporting role in a William Inge play, A Loss of Roses. Though the show flopped on Broadway, Elia Kazan happened to see it. "I liked Warren right away," the director recalls now. "He was awkward in a way that was attractive. He was very, very ambitious. He had a lot of hunger, as all the stars do when they are young." Kazan signed Beatty immediately for Splendor in the Grass; to this day, Kazan remains Warren's favorite director...
...dark everyone goes outside, where a 25-ft. cross swathed in kerosene-soaked rags stands in a field. Rifle-toting Klansmen guard the perimeter. The others button up the face panels on their hoods. Wilkinson rehearses them, but they are awkward at the ritual. As they wave their arms, they look a bit like high school cheerleaders learning a pom-pom routine. Some cannot see too well through those eyeholes. Slowly they circle the cross, throwing torches at its foot. The flames race upward, and all salute by raising both arms, as if crucified...