Word: maladroit
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...Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger. Kanner applied the term to children who were socially withdrawn and preoccupied with routine, who struggled to acquire spoken language yet often possessed intellectual gifts that ruled out a diagnosis of mental retardation. Asperger applied the term to children who were socially maladroit, developed bizarre obsessions and yet were highly verbal and seemingly quite bright. There was a striking tendency, Asperger noted, for the disorder to run in families, sometimes passing directly from father to son. Clues that genes might be central to autism appeared in Kanner's work as well...
...Hyper-Extended Midget Tour,” as it has been named, is more about having fun than promoting an album. The band played several songs from their new, unreleased album Maladroit, that many die-hard fans had already heard online. Opening the show with the single “Island in the Sun” from their self-titled “Green Album,” Weezer immediately grabbed the crowd’s attention and kept them in rapture for a full hour, playing a variety of songs from all three albums, as well...
...substance of the Bush agenda, especially on energy and the environment, has been advanced in a manner that has sometimes seemed willfully maladroit. There is a massive blind spot in the White House, and oddly, it seems, in Dick Cheney - an obliviousness to just how bad they are beginning to look in the eyes of the decisive middle third of the electorate...
...Gore put his arm around Bush's shoulder and chimed in: "Besides, I'm still weirdly maladroit, and George is all relaxed and funny, so we thought we'd make a good act - straight man and joker. Sort of Abbott and Costello." "Seriously, though," Bush rejoined, "we do make a team. We complement each other. I could be brighter, and Al's not quite sure who he is. But together, hell, we're an 800-pound gorilla...
...sinners; Diary of a Country Priest and The Trial of Joan of Arc depict a state of grace under pressure. But all his attractive heroes, whether explicitly religious or not, are trudging up their own private Calvary. In Mouchette, the beautifully pitiless story of a teenage outcast so maladroit that she must try three times before she succeeds in drowning herself, the girl's schoolmates sing one refrain as if it were a prayer: "Hope--for more hope." Bresson's films, handmade and precious, gave viewers hope for a more exact, more exalted form of moviemaking...