Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greenfield's dancing and choreography are eccentric, and at times a little awkward, but she dances very well. She portrays the sensuousness, the fear, and the rigid dignity of the Queen with perfect confidence. Her dancing is stiff, but dramatically right; when her fingers open stiltedly you think of them as somehow organic, like something growing in jerks. Lance Morrow is grave as the fearful and proud King, and the music and the direction complement the motion nicely...
...feel it awkward...
Wholesale relies heavily on Jewish folk and speech ways. But as comedy, Jewish dialect is in awkward transition, no longer funny and not yet English. Harold Rome's score is drab and his lyrics re semble either singing dialogue or nursery rhymes. Dancers are blown about the stage like vagrant autumn leaves, but Harold Lang and Sheree North (Bogen's folly) make a scorching sex rite out of What's In It for Me? As Miss Marmel-stein. a secretary with absolutely no sex appeal. Barbra Streisand trips the show into stray laughs. For the rest. Wholesale...
...lecturer at Oxford, has devoted most of her energy to Rimbaud, and this book is a revised and expanded version of her magnum opus. As a biography, it is the ablest assemblage of a tale many of whose pieces will never be found; as writing, it is often awkward and repetitious. But the story alone carries the book. Rimbaud embodied in his short life some of the great prototypes: the fallen angel, the artist-outlaw, the prodigal son. He continues to be worshiped by religious writers as a saint, by revolutionary poets as a supreme rebel. But he was mostly...
Such a state of affairs is exceedingly unfortunate, for Miss Rutherford, a delectable mountain of a woman, is a supreme comic actress. This truth my now come to be appreciated, for in Murder (She Said)--damned awkward name for a film, really--She has a movie all to herself. Nominally, of course, Miss Rutherford shares her billing with James Robinson Justice and Arthur Kennedy, capable men. But they are mere objects for her to bully, to investigate, or to stalk in a rather frighteningly effective...