Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director. Reynolds does little to help. By casting stars (among them Sally Field and Joanne Woodward) as Sonny's loved ones, he makes the film look like a series of set pieces. There is no structure and no pacing. More awkward still. Reynolds has miscast himself. Sonny seems to be a Jewish neurotic, but Reynolds' many talents do not include an ability to impersonate Woody Allen...
...think it has to be further explained why I have these awkward feelings about protest--it is simply something I was neither born nor raised to do. But concerning Harvard's complicity in apartheid, I did protest, nonetheless. The reason was, I believe that I represent the majority...
...annual salary as a legislator. But, unlike any other Michigan lawmaker convicted of a felony in the state legislature's 143-year history, he has refused to resign from the house. Says Geralds, who is also appealing the guilty verdict: "I know I'm creating an awkward, difficult situation. But I am innocent and I have a clear conscience...
...PERHAPS INEVITABLE that a women's college in the shadow of a major men's university could not hope to maintain a separate identity. Radcliffe's history, despite the claims of Where's Radcliffe?, a multi-media show patterened after Where's Boston?, is basically the story of its awkward coexistence with and eventual digestion by a neighboring men's college...
Despite the excessive length. Act One moves briskly. There are no awkward lulls between songs and dialogue. Ruddigore further avoids monotony by alternately tingling and tickling the audience's spines. The overture and an early number that re-enacts the original curse freeze the viewer's blood, but as the plot progresses the mood shifts to a more comic melodrama, complete with Dracula-like capes and ominous laughter. The chills resume in force during Act Two's climactic portrait scene, in which the paintings of deceased Murgatroyds literally come alive--a moment that is as visually dazzling...