Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean as much for the future of films as the invention of the soundtrack. The man behind them, Richard Leacock, has made it possible for one man to photograph and record synchronously without assistance from anyone. Leacock's new equipment does away with the need for large and awkward production crews and opens the way for motion pictures shot spontaneously in any setting whatever...
...Thompson's music, scored for a chamber orchestra, organ, chorus, and the figures of the Pageant, is unadorned, often almost spare, and calmly joyous. A bustlingly rustic fugue hurries the shepherds towards Bethlehem, where they celebrate the Nativity in an awkward but loving dance. Mary croons a soft lullaby, and Joseph sleeps contentedly by her side. Simeon prophesies the wonders of the Messiah's coming; a boys' choir sings an awestruck Noel, the chorus a mighty, antiphonal Alleluia...
Greenacre expressed disappointment in the results of the Drive, and put blame for the failure on the timing of the campaign. "There was no other time we could have had it, but this week was an awkward time," he said...
...girls are just as good. Linda Bauer skillfully portrays Lucy, the maid, as an engaging, tough little tramp, and Shelia Stannard (Alithea), in spite of some awkward moments, makes an art form out of blandness. Tam Miller as Margery Pinchwife is magificently dumb, and leaps around the stage like an oversexed gnome. As for Emilie Rahman as Lady Fidget--boy, that Emilie Rahman. She is the best thing in the play as the wise-cracking, tough-talking Lady-always-in-waiting...
...what made Sam Rayburn so remarkable was probably not these qualities, but his ability to combine them with a profound awareness of what power was and how to use it. His contribution to the job of running the tremendously awkward machinery of a fragmented and stubborn House was actually a very new one, for he introduced to the Speakership an entirely different politics of control. His great predecessors-men like Cannon and "Czar" Reed-were largely parliamentary tyrants. Rayburn was more, because he was shrewd enough to realize that stamping on all Congressmen is nowhere near so effective as encouraging...