Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Loeb's version suffered from miscasting and awkward pacing, at least it was accurate and intelligent. Had the Charles been intelligent, however, it would not have done Barbara in the first place. It hasn't got the theatre for the play. Shaw demands a large stage, a realistic set, and a ground plan conforming exactly to his specifications. Director Louis Criss should have realized that his small, non-proscenium, three-sided stage could never in Methusela's lifetime accomodate Shaw. But Criss's decision to do Barbara anyway shows that he doesn't understand what the play needs...
...first Nayar felt awkward at the American game, but recently he remarked, "Since [varsity coach] Jack Barnaby has been showing me some shots, I've been doing lots better...
...record to date, will start its usual contingent of Barry Williams, Keith Sedlacek, Gene Dressler, George Neville, and John Scott. Hopefully, Neville can continue the fine shooting he showed at the Detroit Motor City Tournament over the holidays. He sank 12 of 19 shots in two games with his awkward-looking jump shot and may be able to give Harvard a somewhat better-balanced offense...
...novel, the love story of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) was part of a vast canvas of war, revolution and social upheaval. Scenarist Robert Bolt has condensed much of this story through a narrator, Yuri's Bolshevik brother (Alec Guinness). The device seems awkward at times, but the flashbacks spring vividly to life on their own. The couple's first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where Lara...
...Well, if it wasn't earlier this week, it should be now. By adding physical movement to his Dunster-East House production, director Walter Licht has only distracted from the poetry of Dylan Thomas's prose. His player's go through superfluous panto-mines of their words, freeze in awkward tableaux, and speak an appalling number of lines from halfway up the aisle...