Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cranko has described the work "as a ballet for four friends." Brahms' Second Piano Concerto was chosen as the score, the program notes explain, be cause of the composer's "passionate feeling for friendship and love." In an awkward bit of balletic literalness, Cranko carries out the friendship gim mick by having the four principals periodically link up on stage in studied poses of togetherness. Initials takes flight, however, when the soloists are left to perform the stunning variations that Cranko has devised for them. R., in particular, stands for remarkable, when Cragun almost nonchalantly shows...
Still, there was some early doubt as to whether nature had intended Secretariat to run or just to be admired for his looks, his intelligence and his calm disposition. All big, growthy horses go through periods when, like awkward teenagers, they seem to be constantly tripping over their own feet. In Secretariat's case there was another problem: an insatiable appetite...
Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back...
...failure to make public the discussion of his plans for the site presently occupied by Hunt Hall has already put the Faculty Council in the awkward position of having to request that the administration reconsider an earlier decision. The Save Hunt Hall Committee is in even more difficult straits. Because President Bok has refused to open the demolition of Hunt Hall to Faculty consideration, the only way of preserving that building is by obtaining a court order against its destruction...
...writing debut a great success. The past few weeks have been among the happiest in my life. You have invited me to your parties and even the doctors of your health services have expressed an interest in meeting with me. The sentences of my last article were only the awkward scribblings of a scientist eager to share his observations, to see whether his untested theories might experience photosynthesis in the light of day, or whether they would merely exhale more harmful carbon dioxide. Yet some of my readers seem to think that I have a style which is not unpleasing...