Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have had reason for this cocky rejection of a truce. The Soviet Union last week cranked up its warnings of possible intervention another notch by demanding that "the aggressor be made to get out immediately." Meanwhile, there was a strong feeling in Hanoi that the Chinese were facing an awkward dilemma. They had occupied border areas of Viet Nam, but without having faced battle-hardened units of the country's regular army. A further advance south toward Hanoi meant risking a serious extension of supply lines and reprisal by the Soviet Union. On the other hand, a unilateral withdrawal...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
...Vietnam. But Michael Cimino concerns himself more with what Vietnam did to America. He follows the lives of five Russian-American steelworker friends in a small Ohio valley town, while remaining largely true to actual events. This ground-level view is contrived at first--for instance, the actors are awkward and reckless with their guns, and they talk a little like displaced New Yorkers--but the emotional strength of the story wins the audience. Robert DeNiro carries the movie with the intensity of that inner distance he has copyrighted, and the supporting cast crystallizes and meshes perfectly around...
...much in evidence for a long time−is useless. At a meeting of some 100 top G.O.P. officeholders earlier this month in Easton, Md., bipartisanship in foreign policy was dismissed as both a myth and out of date. Republican opposition to Carter places Church in the awkward political position of seeming to be on the G.O.P. side whenever he opposes Carter's policy...
Christie is played by Vanessa Redgrave, the American by Dustin Hoffman−a very odd couple indeed. Redgrave simply has no peer when it comes to playing women rendered both vulnerable and awkward by the intensity of emotions that cannot be fully expressed. She is lovely and touching. Hoffman's character is based on a vanished type, the journalistic dandy of the Richard Harding Davis variety. He's a man who travels with a dozen suitcases full of bespoke clothing, knows his way around menus and room clerks, has the air of a self-made...