Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delight. He and Philip Heckscher, as Macheath's helpmate filch, perfectly time their comic gestures to suit their songs. And they both have rich, pleasing voices. Richard Backus, as Locket, is the male counterpart of Miss Levine, a slapstick scene stealer with a comically mobile face. Unfortunately awkward, for he seems unsure of himself, stumbling over his lines and stiffly declaiming his songs. Still, he scowls enough to make an adequately evil Peachum...
...press. Floodlights were turned on to make a patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer of the film she had come to make. "That's Jeanne Moreau...
...that Cutler and Miss Hawkins should necessarily have resorted to pecularities of style to hold the audience. But as their lines, played straight, are awkward at best, they might have tried to strike a few more sparks. Flax's rage never impressed me, his perplexities never touched me. Neither did Stella...
...this understandably rattled CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather, to whom the "Hello, Nancy" refrain in all likelihood began to sound like the awkward bounce of a head rolling over uneven ground. (His.) On Inauguration Day, suspecting that Nancy and Lyndon had prearranged key spots for her to be in, Rather shadowed her like a spy who had been left out in the cold. When he would catch sight of an NBC camera crew, Rather would quickly deploy a CBS crew to the same place...
Yamasaki began with an awkward lot, bisected by Nicollet Avenue, scheduled to become a pedestrian mall ending in a park. Instead of obstructing the vista, Yamasaki resolved to enhance it. But how? He considered lifting the structure on stilts ("It would have been like going through a tunnel"), putting in an archway ("But that would have cut the building up"), moving it off to one side ("Then the building would not have been visible from Nicollet Avenue, and we had a beautiful location...