Word: graceless
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French novelist Loup Durand fills out this scenario with the graceless prose that marks other classics of the genre, including John Buchan's The Thirty- nine Steps, Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal and almost everything written by Ian Fleming. The boy's doomed mother Maria is not merely an eyeful, she has a "passion for beautiful things and more than enough money to indulge it . . . Coco Chanel suits, tea roses, the best restaurants, jazz, and driving her Bugatti at a reckless speed...
...city attuned to architectural splendors and niceties, the squat, graceless Chicago Sun-Times Building, resembling an aluminum-and-marble houseboat run aground, has long struck its beholders as an eyesore. Suddenly it has become the visual star of the Windy Cityscape. Deciding that the structure would be a good backdrop for his latest creation, titled Bess' Sunrise, Textile Artist Maya Romanoff adorned the building with 28 brightly colored canvas strips, each 6 ft. wide and 120 ft. long. Suspended from the seventh-floor terrace and hanging down to the edge of the Chicago River, the work offers a billowing spectacle...
...short, Garner is perfectly cast as a gracefully aging Wyatt Earp in Writer-Director Blake Edwards' curiously graceless evocation of a bygone Hollywood age. The frontier marshal comes to town, at the end of the silent era, to act as technical adviser on a western in which Cowboy Star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is supposed to play him in his younger days...
...dark and serious comedy. The graceless, awkward, stiff, stumbling character trips about in a world occupied by natural athletes and virtuoso statesmen, though once he commanded that world. Preposterous contrasts are always good for a laugh. Alone onstage in Saddle River, the comedian raises himself to the company of heroes, soliloquizing that "it is necessary to struggle, to be embattled, to be knocked down and to have to get up." Look at history's great leaders, he says. They have all trod the wilderness at times. Churchill, De Gaulle, Adenauer. If the audience thinks such comparisons absurd, clearly the comedian...
Ethan Herschenfeld plays this galumphing giant (Hal Carter), who attracts the attention of Madge and Millie Owens. But the only attention he's likely to attract from the audience is bound to be negative. Herschenfeld's movements are stiff and graceless, and his voice wavers over important lines...