Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the first act of last week's performance, the audience was sparing with its applause, although Nureev, impressed with his quiet authority, and Fonteyn danced radiantly, even if her hand positions seemed awkward at times. It was in the second act that Nureev-Fonteyn captured their audience. Nureev put on a breath-catching display of classic male dancing, lifted Fonteyn effortlessly aloft, spurred her on to a performance full of fluency and lyric ardor. At the ballet's climax, when Fonteyn cradled Nureev's head in her arms as he lay on the point of death...
...India. One of them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They meet Dr. Aziz (expertly played by Zia Mohyeddin), a Moslem who is young, charming, overemotional, awkward and desperately anxious to please. His position, India's and Britain's are dryly summed up by two incidents. Before the ladies come, Fielding cannot find his back collar stud, and the puppyish Aziz plucks out his own and forces the principal to take it. Later Miss Quested...
...visitor stirs the tank. Larry had been badly injured in World War II while saving Albert's life in combat. At remeeting, they act out the awkward, bantering joviality of two men who have only a 15-year-old memory in common. But Larry's questions become pressing, his manner grave. Is Albert happy? Why didn't he buy the farm he used to dream of so longingly that Larry nicknamed him "the plowboy"? Where is the child whom Albert named after Larry? Between them, husband and wife desolate the visitor with unsparing revelations. The farm...
...inch-long butt, and spat contemptuously into the dirt. "Keep your eyes open," warned a bystander. "That Blue Boy's a rank old s.o.b." Nodding brusquely, Kenny Mc Lean hiked up his scuffed leather chaps, swung over the rail, settled gingerly into the saddle, and in the awkward tradition of rodeo riding, he dug his spurs hard into Blue Boy's neck...
...whirring electronic box that can calculate, memorize, talk back, and-by designing future generations of computers-almost reproduce itself. The first business computers were delivered late in 1954. After several years of expensive trial and embarrassing error, of disappointments and ultimate breakthroughs, the computer in 1961 passed through the awkward stage and got down to serious work. This year, for the first time, sales and rentals of computers topped $1 billion, and the number of computers in the U.S., ranging from giant brains down to small, desktop convenience models, doubled to 9,000. Performing with even greater versatility than...