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Word: awkwardness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before educators are too certain of who is able to cope with dirty movies, they might examine some of the awkward positions they have been caught in during the past year...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: A Peepshow of the Economics Department | 4/10/1973 | See Source »

HOPEFULLY MORE PEOPLE will visit the Leverett House exhibit as it continues through the month of April, although it is admittedly awkward to prowl around the display panels without disturbing the small library's more diligent clientele. The inaccessibility of this fine display of Harvard student work should stimulate people to plan exhibitions on a larger scale around the University. We shouldn't have to wait until our classmates have published or perished to see their achievements...

Author: By Deborah A. Coleman, | Title: Opening Shots | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Cassandra Warshowsky plays a maid with bright, starstruck eyes, a face fast as quicksilver and an awkward energy that has Liza Minelli written all over it. Donnally Miller's vague and woeful wildman has a strange way of displaying innocent curiosity. He even speaks his lines as if they themselves are a source of wonderment-it's perfect. Laure Solet's performance brings the concept of complaint to its highest reaches, with a successful method that can only be called nervous nonchalance. All in all Sam Shepard's play is so vigorously acted that one's magnanimity cannot help...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: It Won't Work on Paper | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

...yeah, this has gotta be theater of the absurd." That happened at the beginning of the evening's second play, Peter Handke's I Came Into the World, last weekend at the Caravan, but the guy was wrong: it was the theater of the exaggerated, the boring, and the awkward...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Out of Shape | 3/21/1973 | See Source »

...full flight down an Alp's snowy flank, Austria's Annemarie Proell resembles nothing so much as a controlled crash about to happen. Feet well apart, arms locked to her thighs, in an awkward-looking squat that offends purists, she rockets out of the starting gate toward the first turn. Her motives for that all-out start are direct: "I try to risk as much as possible in the first few gates," she says. "It makes the competition nervous-I know they watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Flying Fr | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

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