Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honor Thy Father), on the other hand, believes it is beneficial if the interviewer has not read the book. "The fewer questions the better, the less he says the better, the less he knows the better. I want to talk about what's serious, not sit through the awkward moments of introduction. A monologue is more interesting than interrupted dialogue." Talese, one of the best organized touring authors, seems to have it all figured out. He has even gone on the air to talk about his work in progress, a massive study of American sex habits. Flogging a book...
...crowds love a winner, and everywhere that Gerald Ford went as he campaigned in Illinois, throngs lined the streets to get a glimpse. Often they greeted him with rousing cheers, foot stomping, whistles and cries of "Go get 'em, Jerry," and "We love you, Jerry." The uneasy and awkward candidate of last fall is beginning to turn the voters...
Stylistically, An American Family in Moscow has considerable problems. It is obvious that the father is the journalist in the family; his writing is far superior to the other's. The mother often uses awkward construction and sometimes misuses words ("the fulsome trees hide the drabness of the gray stone city sitting squat on its giant plain.") The younger children write clearly like children throughout the book. Although they complained to their mother years after the publishing about the immaturity of their prose in the book, their literary freshness is usually charming and always forgivable...
...movie, you can be sure only that it will be like no other. A film maker of vaunting, demanding individuality, Cassavetes is like a jazz soloist, an improviser who tears off on wild riffs from a basic, familiar melody. When Cassavetes is really cooking, even the moments that are awkward and forced can become electric...
...shift from lonely neurotic to killer is yawningly predictable-no more informative than a Sunday supplement piece on the mind of the assassin. (Travis keeps a diary, just as Arthur Bremer did before he shot George Wallace.) What Scorsese is good at is moments-chance encounters between unlikely characters, awkward conversations between ignorant people, men and women trying, often with comic poignancy, to understand a world in which the old verities offer neither guidance nor insight. He can be an effective film maker, given a loose, unpretentious story like Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, where there is less...