Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eleventh-hour snag at Lancaster House obviously left Soames in an awkward position during his first days in Salisbury. Though theoretically endowed with dictatorial powers, the new Governor planned to "play it gently," as a senior aide put it, until the cease-fire dilemma resolved itself one way or the other. A former ambassador to France, Soames has a reputation for a keen political sensitivity, an ability to get things done and a certain measure of arrogance. Predicts a friend: "He will frighten the life out of whites or blacks who dare disobey his orders...
...what we get is the Allen persona of all his films, at least up to Annie Hall--ingratiatingly awkward and insecure, morbid, conscientious; intellectual and only saved from pseudo-intellectualism because his sidekicks are transparently far more pompous and shallow. Above all, he's acutely aware of all these things about himself, and, therefore, by an easy step, somehow above all his failings because he knows about them, After all he wrote the film--A Woody Allen Film...
...production begins wth Dionysus (Kosta Demos) standing on a pedestal in an awkward statuesque pose for what seems an interminable length of time. You think hard--you don't remember any Dionysus in this play. Your memory is better than you thought; director Alfredo Estrada has almost completely rewritten this play, adding and deleting characters at will...
...shots; while a few of the lines succeed (Man deprived of sex: "Do you know what four years can do to a person? Another man deprived of sex: "Yes, I was a Harvard man, too."), they more often fall flat (Kinesias...Senator Edward Kinesias!). Dionysus delivers many of these awkward lines, which are difficult to digest, but not nearly so difficult as the leering way that he recounts the tale of his "love" for Aryadne. Dionysus's role has nothing to do with the body of the play, except that the production, already a mercifully short hour-and-a-half...
McCue added, "I certainly didn't reach the decision out of any sense to be rid of an irritant. While the program did have an awkward incident, I've never felt it was an embarrassment...