Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the 1972 Republican National Convention. It is an emotional moment. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War, having converged from all over the country, assemble around the convention hall. Most are shut out, but somehow Kovic manages to enter. Enraged, near tears, he protests furiously, crying out at the awkward and indifferent Nixon delegates. "Look at me, look at your war!" The television cameras catch sight of him, Roger Mudd of CBS approaches, and for two minutes of national television all the pent up shame and rage and grief gushes...
...character that interrupted his momentum and put him uncomfortably on the defensive. The Watergate special prosecutor was still looking into a mysterious allegation by an unidentified informer that Ford had misused union contributions to his congressional campaigns some time between 1964 and 1972. Ford's position was awkward. No charge had been brought against him, so he could not even inquire of Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff about the investigation without implying improper presidential pressure...
McInally's awkward gait and gangling frame--described by one coach at the 1974 Senior Bowl as "positively the worst body I've ever seen on a football player"--was easily recognizable. But even if McInally had been proportioned normally he would still have been conspicuous by virtue of his personality...
...performance at the 500 was Bob Dole at his best: trying gallantly to cope with an awkward situation, kidding himself in the process, and doing his damndest to win support for Ford and the Republican ticket. As the vice-presidential candidate, Senator Dole sees his role in the campaign as that of "the lead dog," seeking new and promising territory for the G.O.P. He also has the job of carrying the fight to the Democrats, at least early in the campaign, while the President follows the strategy of staying put in the White House and acting "presidential...
What finally prevents Gator from rising above its humble origins is an awkward mixture of moods that Director Reynolds never really manages to sort out and smooth over. The picture's basic ambience is rather larkish, but there are melodramatic sequences of near-Victorian sentimentality (especially in an exploration of a cathouse specializing in drugged adolescents) and others that stress a kind of Disposall-style violence. These sudden shifts in tone are disorienting and make what might have been a modestly entertaining venture into something that is unfortunately less than the sum of its several good parts...