Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freudenberger designed his own set and lighting. By opening the supposedly cluttered, cooped room into a wide, multiwalled affair, he made on deviation from Pinter's detailed textual description of the room. Since most of the business hovered near the walls, the actors had to make some agonizingly awkward walks across an eternity of space at crucial moments...
Sandwiched between Brigitte's bomb-tossing babyhood and the closing series of demolitions is a beautiful but dramatically embarrassing film, whose awkward moments bunch under two headings; anticlimax, and gratuitous shock...
...think Malle let his famous ladies run away with Viva Maria!, confident perhaps that with their names on marquees he wouldn't need much else. Without attacking self-indulgence as a theme, Malle's film reveals its own confusion and self-indulgence in an awkward attempt to deal with an altruist and a revolution selflessly fostered...
...process of discounting China's military threat, he said the Chinese navy consisted of "nothing except thousands of junks." The type who laughs compulsively whenever he hears the word "junk" laughed, and Young--apparently encouraged--went on to coin a new phrase--"junks full of Chinks." It was an awkward moment all around. Some hissed; most were pointedly silent and the Ohio Senator had no easy time of it recovering...
Springs Awakening has now reached an awkward age for a play about emotions: it is too old to have much shock value, but too young to work as a period piece: the maunderings of these German bourgeois and adolescents of 1891 are sometimes too painfully reminiscent of some contemporary drama...