Word: awkwardly
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...speaking as if in a daze. Instead of being menacing, she seemed simply loopy, like a evil version of Carol Kane--you know something is wrong when "I hate her! I loathe her!" becomes a laugh line. Barbara Matteau's brief turn as Madame, while awkward, succeeded in injecting some relieving frivolity into the play...
Forbes enjoys some advantages over his opponents, of which his personal fortune is only one. Most of the press corps, and the voters, are treating him gently, though that will change as the scrutiny increases. He is so awkward in person--the boy who won't ask the girl to dance at the prom--that voters who meet him think he can't be for real, and so conclude that he must be. Unlike Dole, he has a single, clear message--Mr. Flat Tax--shellacked onto his forehead. Unlike both Dole and Phil Gramm, he is not a member...
...frightening, funny and awkward play begins with an extensive dialogue between Dodge and Halie, an old Illinois farm couple. They are old, screwy and hardly living in domestic bliss. Their son Tilden, who seems to have lost some of his faculties in an accident, is living with them. Bradley, another son, lives nearby and terrorizes the sick Dodge. Halie is obsessed with one of her sons who has died, and Tilden keeps bringing up another child who has died...
...these questions come at an awkward time for the Clintons. The President was said to be so distracted by the disclosure of the Watkins memo Wednesday night that his mind wandered during the budget talks. As for his wife, the revelations are likely to make it harder for her to take a larger public political role anytime soon...
...EVERY GROWN WOman there is an inner teenage girl--an awkward, dissatisfied someone who longs to be a more alluring someone else. This sadly enduring truth is explored with affecting accuracy in Emerald City (Doubleday; 178 pages; $22.50), a collection of short stories by Jennifer Egan, whose first novel, The Invisible Circus, was published last year to critical praise and encouraging sales...