Word: maladroit
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...here, Janie Blumberg, the playwright's alter ego, rejects a suffocating marriage with a very eligible doctor and utters Heidi-esque lines like "I made choices based on an idea that doesn't exist anymore." Still, the spirit of the play is more aptly conveyed by Janie's comically maladroit efforts to cook a roast chicken for her boyfriend...
...economic and domestic policy, the White House has been energetic but surprisingly maladroit, hopping among major and minor issues with little continuity or follow-through. The White House has also been inattentive about managing the news and delivering its message to the public, especially when compared with skills of the Reagan Administration or even with the "theme-of- the-day" Bush campaign. "The President has given nobody the overall authority to coordinate people's efforts and make sure things work around here," explains one senior Administration official. "And there's only so much that even a President as active...
Since last winter, Bush strategists had known they had to spruce up the Vice President's image. George Bush was seen as awkward, wimpish, maladroit. So Bush's handlers engineered a makeover. They had him utter self-deprecating cracks about his lack of charisma. They arranged for him to be photographed amid his photogenic grandchildren...
...public presence. Ailes wants Bush to rehearse more and stick to his carefully prepared texts; Bush waves away much of this as inconsequential. Even when Bush does follow the Ailes regimen, he often seems to be his own worst enemy. He frequently comes across as a good-natured Mr. Maladroit, garbling his syntax, muddling his ideas and tripping over his applause lines...
...many performers appeared together on so many different stages. After enduring roughly 50 debates, a numbed voter might rightly ask, "Where was the beef?" About the only beneficiaries of this orgy of oratory were Bush and Jackson. As the Vice President again seems to be turning himself into Mr. Maladroit, it is easy to forget how his hyperaggressive debate posture put a crimp in all the wimp talk. Jackson's dominance of the Democratic debates helped him narrow his credibility gap as a serious contender. There were also casualties from these protracted trials by rhetoric: Babbitt, plagued by near palsied...