Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name outside a movie house, she speeds back home to Geneva, determined to give it all up. There she plops into the none-too-reluctant arms of Marcello Mastroianni, takes up residence in his apartment, tries suicide in his bathroom, follows him to Spoleto. Director Malle's somewhat awkward purpose in getting her to Italy is to expose her to the flashbulb-popping paparazzi, who destroy her with cameras. The scenery is beautiful, but audiences unaccustomed to BB in a bitter-dregs role may yearn for the bubbly vintage Bardot that used to be one of France...
...turns out, are a rogues' gallery of stupid, brutal and arrogant attendants. In self-defense the hero tries to decide who he is and what made him that way. A succession of sometimes awkward flashbacks shows a dismal flat in a dismal slum, a father dying of some unspeakable capitalist contagion, a mother playing around with her "fancy man," a burglary of no more importance than a raid on the cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance...
...course, it is possible that his words may need editing before being printed. Which of us has never used an ungrammatical word or phrase, or written an awkward sentence? CATHERINE RONDINELLI Milwaukee...
...also a grim occasion for the U.S., which somehow found itself offering ransom to the uncouth Communist dictator of an impoverished island less than 100 miles from Florida. That was a grotesquely awkward posture for a nation that cherishes "Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute" as one of its proud historical utterances.* The ransom negotiations were all the more embarrassing at a time when the U.S. was pressing other nations to halt shipments to Cuba...
Dilemmas & Differences. The hand shake may have looked awkward, certainly permitted less warmth and variety of delivery than the cocktail kiss. But it also posed fewer problems; in Chicago, for instance, where party circles often look more like squares, only good friends, college classmates and best friends of husbands and wives get kissed. In San Francisco, social kissing is frowned on for young adults and the unmarried, practiced mainly by married women over 30. Said an elderly man, withdrawing from a young woman's embrace: "I wish she wouldn't kiss me. It makes me feel...