Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of a substitute for the real thing. The frustration of the "Collector" becomes real for us all: the stories too often titillate with the promise of raunchier things to come, and then (so to speak) leave the reader unsatisfied. When Nin does become graphic, the language gets awkward, as if the description of the sexual act really does embarass...
Begin's visit to Cairo had come at a slightly awkward moment for Sadat. Meeting in Baghdad, the Foreign Ministers of 18 Arab countries and the Palestine Liberation Organization had agreed to take diplomatic and economic action against Egypt, including the breaking of diplomatic relations and the removal of Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Tunis. On the day of Begin's arrival, in fact, almost all Arab ambassadors were bound for Cairo airport on their way home. Sadat's willingness to receive Begin at such a moment suggested to foreign observers the degree of his determination...
...right word for these kids-a first draft of a word rather than a finished word, hopeful, awkward, the kind of word that experts in youth guidance adore. But-who can be against positiveness? Or Dan Voll? Or those who, in all their positiveness, devote themselves to children, as does Terry Giroux...
Certainly, more than the faces and physiques of the greats have lent contours to the archetype. It is premature if not fatuous to say that any man looks like a President before he has done the job. Sixscore years ago, many voters thought that one candidate was much too awkward and homely to fit the task...
Laboring under the burden of a broken toe, Bellucci nevertheless is eloquent and convincing, especially in the beautifully acted love scenes with Masha. Chris Clemenson takes the awkward character of Tusenbach and fills it out with sympathy and skill. Tusenbach's paeans to labor can easily turn into sermonizing and his devotion to Irina into sickening self-abasement, but Clemenson doesn't self-dramatize the role. He transcends the limiting qualities of the part as Chekhov wrote it to create to subtle portrait of human suffering, weltschmerz...