Germán Samper, a Colombian, designed an oyster-shell stadium in curved thin concrete that puts the clumsy theme-parked nostalgia of American ballparks to shame.
In "When We Were Pretty," Monica Bill Barnes offers a collection of witty, quirky, virtuosic and deliberately clumsy dances on themes of childhood, coming of age and growing old.
Once orthodoxy had been established, these mythic themes appeared clumsy and, in retrospect, heterodox or even heretical.
And okay, it's also a clumsy reference to some of the recurring themes in the novel, and another great clanging peel of over-explanation.
It wasn't all that difficult, it turned out, given that the original grindhouse movies were characterised by bad-quality prints, primitive special effects, clumsy edits, muffled dialogue and generally exploitative themes.
Jury is still out on whether it was all by media design (an uncouth stumble into Black History Month highlights) or, for the less paranoid in us, a clumsy clash of random occurrences woven into a very typical American theme.
The program was short lived, with only 17 episodes produced, but it found popularity largely because of the comic theme to "George of the Jungle," which repeatedly warned the clumsy vine swinger to "watch out for that tree".
Its theme was that Mitt Romney's criticism of President Obama on Tuesday evening was seen as clumsy and badly timed.
As the album title suggests, change – the shifting currents linking past and future – is the overall conceptual theme, most revealingly broached in those songs dealing with romantic disillusion, such as "Eventually" and the clumsy apologia "'Cause I'm a Man".
