Word: lumpishly
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Aspin's problems had as much to do with his lumpish style as his policy positions. Rather than narrowing the cultural gap between the Oval Office and the war rooms, Aspin seemed to symbolize it. To the creased uniforms at the Pentagon, Aspin's rumpled suits and looping, ruminative pronouncements made him seem tweedy and hapless. Oddly for a man who first came to the Defense Department in the mid-1960s as one of the chart-toting whiz kids ushered in by Robert McNamara, Aspin was poor at organizational matters. In a place accustomed to firm decisions and stopwatch timing...
...Antiope, the huge canvas he began in 1958 and worked on intermittently for 16 years, leaving it unfinished at the time of his death. If one can speak of neo-expressionism by an original expressionist, this painting is it. Everything about it, from the violently suffused colors to the lumpish drawing of the Amazon queen's feet, runs close to satire. Never, one suspects, has classical myth been rendered with such homely, indeed suburban, protagonists. But for the burning temples in the background one might suppose the scene was a Baltic beach in August. And yet it has a strange...
...portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close-at-hand vision of youth. Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated and clumsy in its mix of naturalism and artifice. But Sheba remains a showcase for poignant acting. Knight attains a lumpish sweetness but does not sentimentalize her character as a victim. Bosco has little to do until his whisky-sodden storming, but radiates the disappointment that beclouds the house. Dillon blends coy charm with unhesitating selfishness...
...Avery treated the figure as a strictly formal affair: patch for the dress or bathing suit, patch for face, no detail. In the process he often produced a curious scragginess. The parts of the bodies rarely connect well, and have noli me tangere written all over them. Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach suggest Thurber. In Matisse, no matter how reduced the outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic relationship of part to part, its accessibility...
...sketches for a new visitors' entrance to the White House. The building will house electronic detectors known as magnetometers to screen the roughly 1.5 million tourists who traipse through the President's house every year. In the first sketches the architectural addition looked as forbidding as the lumpish guardhouses put up for the Secret Service...