Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years since the U.S. began dumping its awkward farm surpluses overseas on semi-giveaway terms, so much of the glut has disappeared that now the nation must try to expand farm output after 33 years of curbing it. Twice this year, Washington has increased its price supports for dairy products, and it is now asking farmers to plant 10% more rice, 15% more wheat. For lack of grain to store, Cargill, Inc. last month closed its largest elevator in Buffalo. With India consuming a quarter of the U.S. wheat crop this year, as against a fifth last year...
...Times Are A-Changin', Optis 3. What is troubling now is a studied inarticulacy--a consistent deverbalization--which marks good and bad songs alike on Blonde on Blonde. Emblematic of the present wordlessness stands the cardboard jacket, filled with snapshots where past albums abounded in liner notes (often awkward but sometimes incisive). The songs themselves, by profuse blues repetitions and by overlong choruses, generally blunt the listener's attention to the language of the songs...
Behind all the squabbling stands the awkward fact that a rapid rise in interest rates-the classic but imperfect monetary weapon against inflation-hurts some segments of the economy (such as savings institutions and housing) but leaves others (such as banks and industry) relatively unscathed. Partly for this reason, there are limits to how much credit can be tightened without so dislocating the economy as to threaten a recession. If Washington reduced its massive domestic spending on top of the cost of Viet Nam, banks and the Federal Reserve could pursue a gentler course...
...Wittstein has designed sets based on four vertical beams that function as an elevator shaft for a rising and falling structure, with two other second-storey platforms that roll in from the sides. These make some of the entrances and exits needlessly awkward. Domingo Rodriguez' costumes are, some details aside, generally apposite, and Tharon Musser's lighting is somewhat too active. John Duffy's opening A-minor music for brass, cymbals and kettledrums smacks too much of a Near East movie spectacular, but the later rustic music, in the traditional rustic key of F-major, is much better. When...
...night, Thrown together in a sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly in an empty bunk. The train reaches Paris. Someone strangles the flirt after the other passengers have left...