Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theatre Company of Boston's production flattens Lowell's resonant verse and staging into an awkward sequence of ironic comment on contemporary America. Directors David Wheeler and Frank Cassidy have constructed Lowell's penetration of an American mind into a simple tragedy of racism...
...Guinness brought an aura of mystery and suave authority to the part of Harcourt-Reilly, and Irene Worth as Celia evoked a taut sense of spiritual crisis. Without their skills, the confessional-psychiatric dialogue, which sends Celia off to her eventual anthill, sounds surprisingly specious and unconvincing. Suddenly more awkward than intriguing are Eliot's pomposities, like the stilted toast that the three Guardians intone to the future of their charges. And it no longer seems much fun to speculate on the writer's half-veiled allusions (do a pair of spectacles with one lens missing...
...that were the extent of the problem, Simon could easily enough discard all the lines left over from the movie and substitute his own. But much of his own dialogue, in addition to being incongruous, is downright awkward. Too many of the show's laughs as presently constituted drain the credibility of its characters and situations. For instance, Simon has the doctor from across the hall at one point volunteer that "Experimentally, I took a trip once on L.S.D.--I had a better time in Miami Beach when it rained for two weeks." Lines like that and "I'm just...
Understandably awkward during his first few campaign appearances-last spring he self-consciously delivered histrionic paeans to Julie's dad-David has evolved a low-keyed approach...
Nantucket Memorial Airport was socked in, and all flights to and from the island resort off the southern hook of Cape Cod were canceled. The only thing moving through the mist was an awkward contraption that looked like an oversized giraffe with a bad case of neck strain. As it rumbled along, the monster seemed to be generating additional fog, spewing a fine white spray out of its tall tip. But the machine's passage produced remarkable results. In less than half an hour, some of the thick ocean-born fog overhanging the field began to disappear...