Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awkward and uninspiring orator, Abdnor has avoided tying himself to the President, emphasizing instead his disagreements with Administration figures like David Stockman. Though South Dakota's Republicans slightly outnumber Democrats, Abdnor trails Daschle by six to ten points in the latest polls...
...work is often thought-provoking. But the staging at the Agassiz simply does not have the spiritual aura or nuanced acting to carry an audience through an hour of abstracted performance. Noh business is not show business, and doesn't try to be, but Komachi is too slow and awkward to be very rewarding...
...latest craze for teenagers, mostly boys, bike breaking first rode out of the California fadlands. Today urban parks and streets all across the nation spin with the kids' aggressive energy and hair-raising choreography. They have their own argot: "rad" means good; a "squid" or "nipple head" is an awkward rider; "to Wilson" is to fall. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, somebody brings the music -- Phil Collins, Run-D.M.C. -- and somebody else a ramp for the daredevils to soar above, and the showboating begins. Says Dave Vanderspek, 22, the leader of the Curb Dogs Club: "Instead...
...pictures strike a note sounded earlier by photographers like Lee Friedlander and the late Garry Winogrand, men who used the documentary approach for more personal ends. In the 1960s they discovered from snapshots (and from the groundbreaking work of Robert Frank) how the eccentricities of naive picture taking -- the awkward gestures, the uncomposed views -- can be a style in themselves when adopted deliberately. Eventually, their work legitimized photographs in which the scene could be tilted, limbs could be sliced by the edges of the frame and the mood of the main figures could be contradictory, ambiguous or just plain impenetrable...
...Chernobyl reactor, while testing a turbine generator, had systematically disconnected all safety systems. That left nothing to prevent the accident after a huge power surge shot through the facility, setting off explosions and fires. Said Legasov: "The defect of the system was that the designers did not foresee the awkward and silly actions by the operators...