Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paragraphs of clear academic prose. So the new 31 pages seem labored at times, wordy in many places. Reyes's adviser read the 31 pages and said he was pleased, but he peppered the margins with comments like "This is confusing," "What does this mean?" and a "K" for "awkward...
...said "to cut down to two permits is awkward and would not help anybody. There are far more applicants than permits...
Kempson's direction is equally professional--there are none of the awkward breaks between lines or scenes that often plague this kind of loosely jointed farce--and a number of the actors, in a show not traditionally renowned for unusual brilliance in this respect, achieve more than just competence. Lindsay Davis makes a fine Colleen Allcars, Mark Kiely is impressively diabolical as the evil earl and Jonathan Emerson as his equality villainous accomplice ("efficient, but a strange woman...she's donating her body to science fiction"), and Matthew Gamser is appropriately straightforward as the bassest soprano since The Love...
...towards. "I work on technique more than anyone around here," he told me, "just so I can learn how to play the violin." The Natural Way of playing involves relaxation (for which he does yoga breathing exercises), confidence, and finding the right position. "So many people play with such awkward poses, and they end up having problems with their muscles, as well as having problems with their technique...
...which found itself in the awkward position of having alienated both of its crucial allies on NATO'S eastern flank, the crisis could hardly have come at a worse moment. Only the week before, Turkey had threatened to close American bases and reassess its participation in NATO in response to Congress's cutoff of U.S. military aid (TIME, Feb. 17). Moreover, the confrontation came just as U.S. relations with Athens were on the mend. Said George Mavros, chief opposition leader in the Greek Parliament: "It's unprecedented. I blame [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger, and I blame...