Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone can take pleasure in the matching of Keaton and Nicholson, their dueling eyebrows poised like crossed swords. And Keaton does locate the troubled human inside Batman's armature. He is amusingly awkward wrestling with the threat that Vicki's inquisitive love represents. He knows the world is not quite worth saving, and yet, "It's just something I have to do," he says, "because nobody else can." Same with Nicholson. Who else could play the Joker? He has a patent on satanic majesty. His performance is high, soaring, gamy. He is as good, and as evil, as the film...
...that Deng had cast his lot with this ideologically rigid Gang of Elders, as the group was dubbed. Such fears were buttressed by renewed government denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization," the phrase that presaged a conservative crackdown two years ago. Some Chinese found a good deal of irony in the awkward situation. "The 80-year-olds," commented one wag, "are calling meetings of 70-year-olds to decide which 60-year-olds should retire...
Veteran agent Sterling Lord sees Wylie as the naughty schoolboy of his generation. "Each one ((of these agents)) pushed the ethics back a little further," he says. But even Wylie's critics acknowledge that he is an inevitable product of the awkward transition from cottage industry to multinational business. So they see little choice but to play along. Says Wylie: "Publishers find it very hard to return our phone calls, but they...
During her junior year, Katsias went abroad for a semester, and she says that when she returned she and Smith felt awkward together. "When I went to England last spring, it was kind of hard because we hadn't seen each other in a long time," Katsias says. "We weren't really sure of how we wanted things...
...Bill Windsor, the awkward, understanding bridge between fantasy and "reality," Jim Marino gets the job done. Brazaitis completely immerses himself in the drama's insanity. But he also adds a religious dimension to Gerald's comic cluelessness, a serious conflict that, of course, evaporates by the drama's chaotic conclusion...