Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, the dialogue is the weakest part of the film; the critics pounced on awkward exchanges (NATASCHA: "Careful, these pajamas are transparent!" OGDEN: "So are you!") and lines like Brando's "I want you to know this is the first real happiness I've known." But criticizing the dialogue on conventional grounds is meaningless; in Chaplin's film, lines have little significance in themselves. The dialogue cannot be divorced from how a character says his line or what he looks like while he's saying it: these factors combine to form complete characterizations. Chaplin has carefully directed the line-readings...
...other side just couldn't cope with the Fugs' "Whitmanic orgy yawp." The Fugs contains a number of songs ("Frenzy," "Skin Flowers," "Group Grope," and "Doin' All Right") which are uninhibited, if awkward, paeans to sex love. Sample lyrics...
...gather that by the use of the awkward term "proto-bureaucrat" Mr. Lardner meant to imply that the School views its mission as the training of narrow fonctionnaires. We are baffled as to how he got this impression. The School's curriculum contains no conventional courses in public administration. Its faculty has no interest in starting any. A list of the jobs which its students take upon receiving the M.P.A. degree contains very few which could merit any of the labels Mr. Lardner employs in his article. Is the deputy director of a community action program in a large city...
...complaints I do have about the acting apply to the more complicated sketches, the ones played on a crowded and busy stage. No doubt a few of the awkward moments are the result of moving from story to play in the first place, but some are just as surely the product of the director's untidiness. Only in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" does Edgar manage to keep control over a number of actors moving at a frenetic pace...
...viewing new layout): There is something wrong with the angle of that shot. Her thighs and hips look awkward. This doesn't do her justice . . . There must be other aspects to her personality...