Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks more like a toy teddy bear than a snarlng beast. When he finally eats the plotting courtiers the actin takes place off stage anyway, so that there seems to be no reason for him to appear at all and turn a supposedly terrifying scene into something awkward and funny...
...evident than in Lear's physical senility. The king flings an arm upward to be imperous, but the fingers tremble in the stagelight. A fist shaken in anger seems to swing limply for an eternity as Lear's age vainly fights inertia. The movements are often ungainly or painfully awkward. Carnovsky is never afraid to make Lear look ridiculous...
...having a crystal flamingo broken over his head and the impact of a Coke bottle which fractured his skull, it is difficult to imagine a stranger applying himself with such diligence. Either way, the lawyers are going to cost half a million. Jacques Mossier may be in the awkward position of paying to spring his betrayers...
...postwar world. Gallantly, he survives each pratfall (even when ordered to take a class in elementary shorthand when he should have been waving his long hands over an orchestra sawing out his own music). The reader laughs uneasily; this is no ordinary slapstick, nor a Chaplinesque comedy of awkward grace amid military bullies and oafs...
...ELIOT: THE FAMILY REUNION (3 LPs; Caedmon). Static and awkward to stage with its philosophic asides and Greek choruses, this poetic play is ideal for recording. One of Eliot's last undertakings was to help choose the excellent cast, which perfectly weaves the shadowy modern drama of sin and expiation. Dame Sybil Thorndike is Amy, the steely dowager who has spent 35 years "designing" her son's life. Paul Scofield plays Harry, the restless, half-mad son who bursts asunder the conventional family gathering, and Flora Robson is Agatha, the all-knowing aunt ("When the loop in time...