Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violate one of the Blocking Commandments is simply bad form. Unfortunately, strict adherence to these rules eliminates an easy escape from awkward blocking situations...
Like the production's sensibility, Freedman's staging and Chris Barrecca's sets are also depressingly stodgy. There are many awkward scene changes. A clandestine affair in a hotel room is carried out without the benefit of a bed. Boundaries between spaces become unnecessarily confused. No doubt the creative team justifies the last critique as a reflection of Willy's fluid movement from reality to dream, but the result is distracting and confusing...
...however, he reverts to the standard observation that health markets don't work right. "Having the illusion that someone else is paying [through insurance]," Forbes says, "we pay too little attention to the prices of health products and services." You can argue either of these positions. But it's awkward to argue them simultaneously...
...tradition of "the quiet guy next door," the closer we get to Travis Bickle, the less we can recognize him as normal. We see him first applying for a job as a cabbie, showing the innocent, boyish humor which will appear later in his awkward pursuit of the senator's aide Betsy, the angelic vision in white. We see him inexplicably frequenting the porn theaters of 42nd Street, then deciding in the name of cleaning things up to take up target practice and toughen his flesh via fire. Finally, he has transformed, or, more accurately, his mind has turned inside...
Initially, it was Janowski's impressive stature that prompted her to play basketball in the fourth grade. Although she sometimes felt awkward about her height, she decided to use it to her advantage in the sports arena...