Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Under dingy eaves, or in front of bookcases chockful of texts, Playwright Peter Shaffer sees the awkward and funny, stuffy and tender sides of people searching for love...
...sere landscapes that feed souls but starve bellies. More eloquent than a land are the faces of its people. Kazan feelingly catches the poetry of peasants, which sometimes works against him because his native extras emanate an ancient sadness only hinted at by the professionals playing at stage center. Awkward dubbing mars the film too, for the disembodied voices on the sound track draw attention to themselves...
...edited by James Thrall Soby. 2 volumes; 286 pages. Braziller. $25. With 96 reproductions of Shahn's paintings and more than a hundred reproductions of his drawings, the disturbing power of Shahn's lonely visions is apparent-in wiry filaments of sparse, nervous lines, in the awkward bulk of bodies out of their element, in chalky faces whose sad eyes peer from sooty sockets. The effect, as in all Shahn's work, is of gritty reality viewed through the distorting lens of a dream...
...District of Columbia is governed by the Congress of the United States, a body which is disorganized enough when it is governing a nation and impossibly awkward when it it stoops to concerning itself with the affairs of a city. Perhaps 70 per cent of the Congressmen pay no attention at all to the District's problems; they are too busy with other things to consider the flood of city laws which flows through the Houses regularly. How can a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, preoccupied with the problems of Vietnam, be expected to worry over...
...Versions of Dior's diving neckline (TIME, Sept. 13) abound. Girls who, for one reason or another, cannot get away with that vertiginous plunge have the option to swoop the skin in back. By day, fashion follows the mid-century's other architectural foible-concealing the awkward infrastructure with artificially streamlined simplicity. The result: straight-up-and-down suits with that covered-up, curtain-wall look...