Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson with a self-depreciating, off-the-cuff with that evolves into passion and outrage, bordering on frenzy when he tells of the horrors he witnessed and the frustrations he felt. David Clennon is an adequate psychiatric sounding board, although he sometimes moves and gestures in a stiff and awkward...
...certain corporations don't distort their focus. He says it would be unfortunate if the East Asian Studies Center grew where corporations giving money to it are involved and not in other areas. "You can't be ethnocentric, you must study the whole context," Goldman says. "It would be awkward to set up a study center just for Kuwaiti studies...
...gallantry that he believes in and admires. Fortunately, he has communicated his earnestness to Writer Goldman, whose humor is tempered by uncharacteristic restraint, and to an excellent cast, among whom Bo Brundin as Kessler stands out. As for Redford, this is his best work since Downhill Racer. Appealingly awkward when trying to express his feeling for flying, he is in his most dashingly self-destructive mode when demonstrating the heights to which his passion drives him. All in all, The Great Waldo Pepper is popular entertainment of a very high order. ∙Richard Schickel
ANOTHER TENET of Artaud's theater dictated that the mise en scene is more important than the language. And his relative indifference to words is reflected in the play; even in the original French, speeches are full of stilted, awkward phrases, heavy-handed metaphors, and non sequiturs But if Artaud meant to avoid the conventional limitations of language, he certainly picked the wrong method. Other surrealistic authors, like fonesca, have successfully given words new impact but only by exercising careful control, not be ignoring them...
...sequins. Then, however, a shy smile splits her deadpan. As she speaks a few words of earnest greeting in her curiously flat voice, Pop and the other males see they can afford to relax. Underneath all that finery and a ceramic of makeup there is a rather awkward, imperfectly beautiful girl. She appears no more daunting than the nice new kid in the secretarial pool or your home room when she finally talks to you -someone, perhaps, who could use a little protecting...