Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director-choreographer Voigt Kempson can probably add some stage business, get the Mounties and Maidens to stop moving their lips to count out their steps and maybe even get them to dance with a little class. Until he does, it's going to be an only occasionally engaging, generally awkward production. Those who don't mind the peculiar taste of the average Pudding effort can at least have their quota of hairy-chested Woodnymphs and Sprites. But if you have only one Pudding Show to see in your lifetime, you should have some second thoughts about this...
...awkward nostalgia Limelight elicits stems partly from its semi-autobiographical stance. Chaplin plays Calvero, an old vaudeville comedian who drinks too much and can't find work. He rescues a suicidal young ballerina (Claire Bloom) and infuses her with his life energy and accumulated wisdom. She becomes a great star; she falls in love with him; he dies...
...sign of what our collegues, to whom we have some responsibility, consider appropriate even now. Professor Wilson recently described accurately and eloquently in a different context the weight of peer pressure on undergraduates in critically responsible positions. It is a pressure that might in certain circumstances be very awkward to deal with in the use of master keys in our communities. I should prefer to avoid that risk, concern for my responsibility will end only if the President decides explicitly to undertake...
...argument for the embattled Tanaka, whose honeymoon with the voters is clearly over (TIME, Jan. 29). Moreover, Washington feels rather strongly that Tokyo often does not seem to be listening to its problems. Whether true or not, there is no doubt that the diplomatic communications gap comes at an awkward time. It coincides ominously with the threat of a U.S. Japanese economic confrontation, as dramatized by the dollar crisis and the warnings of U.S. Trade Negotiator William D. Eberle that Congress might impose an import surcharge if Japan does not do more to reduce its lopsided trade surplus with...
...Most awkward for the old China hand are those situations which defy explanation, those statements that simply do not make sense. Tuchman encountered several. Officials denied facts of history, made senseless decisions, and gave seemingly absurd rationales. Tuchman mused, "One never knows...whether it is ignorance, or befuddled Marxist orthodoxy, or some kind of reverse oriental version of reality." She was standing at the edge of a yawning cultural...