Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon comes to bat again with 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...
Bubble-gum music speaks to them of their own concerns, or rather unconcerns. Since they are at the awkward age, midway between playing house for fun and playing it for real, the music shrewdly looks both ways, combining nursery rhymes with sex. In May I Take a Giant Step (into Your Heart), the lines...
...earned but a slave's wages, his family was better off than that. They owned 500 acres in Linden, Ala., and prospered even during the Depression. Ralph-tenth of twelve children-was expected to help work the farm, but, says his wife Juanita, "He was just too awkward at farm work and never learned...
...committee was composed of prestigious representatives of the power structure not associated with the university. The latter, which came to be known as the Muscetine Committee, was staffed by moderate faculty members. These supposedly "pet" groups concluded their extended studies by submitting reports sharply critical of the administration. Publicly awkward and embarrassing, both reports were ignored...
...find too much to say about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...