Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, it is a gruesomeness that frays the nerves rather than tingles the spine. The Closing Door is not particularly boring; it's just not much fun. Something unpleasantly oppressive about the play is accentuated by something peculiarly awkward in the playwrighting. Actor Knox, with his very low-keyed but believable performance as Vail, proves Playwright Knox's strongest ally...
...eight interviews with members of the sophomore and senior classes at Yale, the adjectives used to describe William J. Bingham's package statement to the press last Thursday ranged from "awkward," "amusing," and "untrue" to "inevitable" and "extremely sensible...
...casting of Flynn in the role of Soames and of Young in the part of Bossiney hurt this film before the first reel was shot. Flynn is not equipped to portray a stodgy, meticulous Englishman; and Young was hopelessly awkward as the eccentric, dynamic architect. Little wonder that Miss Garson couldn't warm up to her task opposite two such misfits. Only Pidgeon, who played Young Jolyon, carried out his assignment satisfactorily. But he appeared too seldom to redeem the incongruity of the other characters...
...that the Workshop dissolve in favor of WHRB early in the fall, Doane said. Since the organization of the experimental group, which replaced the PBH Radio Council, it had used the stations facilities, and many of its members had also been members of the Network. Partly because of the awkward situation, Doane stated, few programs were presented last year...
After an almost idle year under contract to Universal, Elizabeth switched to M-G-M where she played opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home. National Velvet followed a year later. For three years of "awkward age" she had only minor roles, went to the studio school, rode horses, and played with her turtles, fish, mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, ducks and chipmunks. She wrote a little story about one of the chipmunks, called Nibbles and Me, which was published under her name but shows the toothmarks of some careful editorial nibbling...