Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form and presence are well exploited here, although modesty at one point combines with technical ineptness to produce an awkward effect. In a dream sequence, Antonelli appears, dressed in a nun's habit of sheerest gossamer, running toward the camera in slow motion. This affords a welcome opportunity to examine the female form in motion, a salutary study quickly spoiled by the sight of gauze, securely fastened by surgical tape, covering the actress's privates. Soft-core security measures such as this may destroy even the most innocent reveries, but conclusively demonstrate that Antonelli, underneath...
...surprised to discover that allies for many controversial bills will rally from what appear to be distant corners," Smith said. "Coalitions defying party lines can carry most issues to a workable end. I have seen how often left-wingers and conservatives will come full circle and find themselves in awkward but effective agreement," he added...
...makes for an awkward occasion: a group of gifted people working so far below their best talents that everything takes on the giddy air of a runaway charade. Director Vincente Minnelli, a flamboyant, lushly elegant stylist, has been responsible not only for some of the greatest movie musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon), but some enjoyably parboiled melodramas as well (The Bad and the Beautiful, Some Came Running). Here he is working for the first time with Daughter Liza, a stops-out entertainer, and such gifted, welcome actors as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted...
...Learning to row is the first step," Huntsman says. "We work in the tanks for about three weeks, teaching the girls the basics of the stroke. It's difficult, because the motion is awkward...
...thought "Jimmy's Mixed Signals" [Oct. 4] excellently focused on the things that intrigue me the most about Jimmy Carter. He is facile and clever, awkward and honest. He is at once an amazingly capable politician and a man who says the most revealing unpolitician-like things about lust...