Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only...
...doubt on his opening assertion that he is in the tradition of George Orwell, James Agee and Simone Weil, Coles goes no further in briefing us on work and adulthood than any New York Daily News man-in-the-street piece would. And he does so in a more awkward fashion. The grammer is so loose that sentences tend to lack verbs. He tosses in choppy parenthetical phrases that serve as stage directions for his prose, a trick which good writing does not need. The essay is an interesting tidbit and nothing more...
...shortly after, the industry will have an unusual "two-tier" pricing system, with some mills charging a higher and others a lower price. If U.S. Steel decides to hold the line, the increase undoubtedly will collapse again. But if the giant raises prices, it could present Carter with an awkward dilemma: whether to swallow the increase, thus diminishing the credibility of any guidelines he may announce, or start his Administration with a fight against the steelmakers...
...first few issues of any publication are likely to be a bit awkward. Headlines in the pilot issue of In These Times were often misleading, and one bore no relation whatsoever to the content of an entire page...
Fair enough, we decide. Ripping off the rich is not necessarily a spiritual job. But why does Malle linger so long over the process, over the awkward thumps and collapsing objects? Belmondo appears in a marvelous Magritte poster-like costume--mustache, bowler hat and all--and we feel primed for a rakish romp. So why the dragging start? Perhaps the ensuing flashbacks into this life of crime will lend a clue...