Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What would Nixon be like, what would he act like? Almost everyone wondered. Nixon was hesitant about being there at all. Sunday morning a Nixon aide telephoned Baker's office and said that if it was awkward, Nixon would not go to the minority leader's office for coffee. He would instead go straight to the Capitol entrance at the last second so that he would not encounter anyone important. Forget it, Nixon's aide was told. Nixon was welcome...
...Burlesque Comic Joey Faye to help create the vaudeville numbers. Maxwell's casting is precise. Spacek, playing a spiritual sister of the lost souls she acted in Badlands and 3 Women, is diaphanously vulnerable, but also makes a fine clown in her off-pitch songs. William Hurt, her awkward military suitor, is sensitive and attractive in the scenes where he tries to shield Verna from the horrors of battle. The other members of the U.S.O. show, a fraying torch singer and a has-been Catskills comic, are performed with oldtime show biz relish by Sally Kellerman and Howard...
...gesture of Obi-Wan's, however, that he still regrets. When the planet Alderaan blows up, Obi-Wan reels backward and clutches his forehead, an unpardonable cliché in Guinness's opinion. "I still go hot and cold when I think of that scene," he confesses. During those awkward moments, he has at least one consolation: his 2¼% of the film's profits...
Teachers are capable of doublespeak too. During last week's award ceremony, a spokesman for the award committee was asked to define doublespeak. "It's an umbrella term," he replied after an awkward silence, "a high-level abstraction to describe pernicious use of language." At least he winced as he said...
...anarchy of Bu@#241;uel's vision, there is nothing chaotic about his filmmaking style. At 77, he is in such fluid touch with his 'medium that he seems incapable of staging an awkward shot. The movie appears to flow directly from his subconscious, just as surrealist art is meant to do. Fernando Rey, a veteran of a decade of Buñuel films, finds as much baroque humor in his many bouts with coitus interruptus as he did in the unfinished eating scenes of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. The two mysterious Conchitas - one svelte (Carole...