Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poor" also has a new meaning in Alabama. The $3,000-per-family-of-four poverty line figure used in the rest of the country is awkward to use in counties where the average family income hovers around $800. Much handier is the government's survival level" figure of about $1500 per family...
PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon comes to bat again and raps out three short hits. George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton are either hilarious or sentimental as they portray middle-aged couples in sometimes awkward, always amusing predicaments...
Taking Trips. When Thieu emerged from last September's elections, he shared presidential powers with his volatile running mate, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. The result for a time was an intrigue-laden, awkward dualism that South Viet Nam's new constitution had not anticipated. The Communists' Tet offensive, Washington's decision to back Thieu and an accident that killed a host of Ky supporters finally pushed the Vice President into the background (TIME, June 21), and the President has quickly consolidated his position by a succession of shrewd maneuvers that have removed remaining Ky backers...
...specifics: Troilus and Cressida are not, as this production would them, interchangeable with Romeo and Juliet. Although Troilus' first scenes are thoughtfully conceived and work fine with Troilus mooning-about indulging in the awkward speculation of a seventeen-year-old virgin, a later device of having the lovers visibly improvising the romantic metaphors they lovingly hurl at one another is gratuitous. First, it's a stock actor's trick (whenever you have a self-conscious speech to say, you make it quite clear that you're writing it on the spot) and all those pauses, well...
When my high school government class was visited last year by a young police officer, I looked with skepticism on the idea of his communicating anything to a group of intelligent, liberal-minded, middle-class students. But after the first awkward exchanges, my initial impression softened, for here was no hardened, authoritarian, put-'em-in-their-place cop but rather someone who thought, acted, and talked on our level. We fell into easy discussion and learned not only what he did as a cop but also why he was doing it and how it felt to be doing...