Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure of the excellence of Jonathan Black's Seagull that it never does seem ridiculous. This is not to damn with faint praise. The opening night audience was knowledgeable and nervous. It knew what was potentially amusing and tittered at the slightest awkwardness. Everyone seemed to be dying to laugh out-right. But Black and his cast practically never let them...
Similarly, Anthony Dawson as Constantine hints at his relationship with his mother quite skillfully in his alternately sarcastic and nervous monologue on her in the first act. But when he declares his love for Nina in the last act, he uses such a whiney tone as to be thoroughly unworthy of sympathy...
...Nervous, introverted, Brassens does not savor the notoriety. Son of a Flemish bricklayer, he was raised in the Mediterranean village of Séte. He quit school before graduating and, at 18, worked at odd jobs, wrote poetry and bummed around the cafes. In 1952, friends took him to a tiny club run by Patachou, Paris' famed chanteuse, and goaded him into singing. One week later he was the sensation of Paris...
When candidate Kennedy finally entered the state, it was a distressingly ineffectual speaker and awkward campaigner who appeared. While he improved tremendously during the campaign, Kennedy is still incredibly nervous on television, and his hands tremble noticably even when cameramen corner him in a hotel corridor to film a short newsreel clip...
...wholly succeeded in dispelling the power-hungry image (and Keating has certainly tried to complicate this task). But the ruthlessness has pretty well disappeared from the Kennedy characterization within New York. And it has disappeared because New York has seen a Robert Kennedy who is very reserved, often nervous, often awkward, and who is worshipped and followed by hordes of little children wherever he goes...