Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play meandering through their relationships and establishing their mutual loyalties and power differences, often violently. Donny (Ron Ritchell) operates the shop and serves as a protective father figure to Bobby (Phillip Patrone), the simple-minded idiot who repeats and forgets and seems mostly incapable of thought. With his awkward walks and intimidated, boyish cringing, Patrone's Bobby is convincing and real. Donny, whose intimacy with Bobby suggests a homosexual relationship, patiently tolerates Bobby's incompetency and continually offers him constructive advice, though, of course, to no avail...
Agnieszka Holland, the Polish woman who made Olivier Olivier in France, has obviously not seen a lot of American TV. So she is free to imagine the force of domestic disaster as centrifugal, not centripetal. The result is an awkward film that moves one not toward pity but toward dark reflection on the unbearable chaos that always shadows -- as we tend to forget -- ordinary being...
...this evening's foxtrot lesson, many of the once-awkward students move with elegance and confidence, executing twirls and promenading with ease...
Neither Selig nor Robe handle the transition between plotlines smoothly. Selig is forced to beg and grovel to Robe and the emotional fireworks don't suit him well. His face is expressive but his delivery is awkward. As Susan, Robe resorts to clipped anunciation and a martinet's strut to connvey emotional distance. Despite Robe's best efforts. Susan remains an unplansible caricature of promiscuity and icy reserve. Robe has a much firmer grasp of Susan. Whining, shuffling, and grimacing, Susan amuses an undercurrent of threat...
Dateline co-anchor Jane Pauley, who shared the awkward duty of apologizing on air, told the staff in a pep talk the next day that she took "perverse pride" in the readiness to admit failings. But most journalists and, for that matter, most news consumers seemed to agree with former NBC News president Reuven Frank, who said, "This is the worst black eye NBC News has suffered in my experience, which goes back...