Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these and other scenes, every line was taken from the speaker's actual addresses or writings, thus turning the sequences into stark, strident, sometimes awkward exchanges of punch lines rather than into coherent dialogues. But punchy they were, as when Clemenceau (Eric Berry) delivered his famous judgment on Wilson (Harry Townes): "God gave us his Ten Commandments; we broke them. Wilson gave us his Fourteen Points; we shall see." On the whole, the note of authenticity was worth the price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough...
...hands of seasoned pros, felt the incredible force of his bandwagon organization as it coursed over the U.S. Over the months he etched the image of a driving personality, the peculiar quality of his hasty rhetoric that seemed to magnetize though it lacked warmth. Unsmiling for the most part, awkward in gesture, undramatic in tone, he hammered again and again at basically one theme-that the U.S. was caught on dead center in a dynamic age, and he would "get this country moving again...
...trip that will include visits to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benediktos in Jerusalem and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul. The Archbishop of Canterbury plans to stay at Rome's stately Villa della Camilluccia, residence of Britain's Minister to the Holy See. To avoid any awkward moments, the Pope is expected to receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about may be trivialities, Dr. Fisher admitted last week, but, he added, "Talking trivialities...
...tragedy as if he were blowing out a candle. Another problem is that Lerner seems to stop shy of the most tragic moments not only Arthur's death but Guinevere's trial and rescue, which, in the script as it stood last week, was only related in an awkward "standup oratorio." Perhaps L. & L.'s biggest problem is to find a way of telling this climactic scene visually or dramatically...
...their first on Broadway. The Day Before Spring (1945) won lower-middling reviews and closed after five months. Then 1947's Brigadoon spread the L. & L. tartan down Shubert Alley. In 1951 they achieved a sluggish eight months' run with Paint Your Wagon, a mining-camp western with an awkward book and a rousing score. Lerner, meanwhile, had been moonlighting on his partnership with Loewe, won an Oscar for the movie, An American in Paris. The partners came together again in 1954 to see if a musical could be made from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. The answer, 19 months...