By the end of this decade the F.A.A. plans a shift from the clumsy voice-based air traffic control system to high-speed "digital data links," transmitting bursts of data like those in instant messaging systems.
He has a clumsy, sweaty voice, almost intentionally atonal, with a slanted Caribbean accent that I can't quite place.
Its defects – shaky rhythm sections, weak voices, clumsy playing – were a refusal of the perfectionism and professionalism of 80s rock and pop.
"You just play," said Mr. Yelchin, whose recent credits include "The Beaver," "Terminator Salvation" and "The Smurfs" (voice of Clumsy Smurf).
One can tell fabulous stories through moving images, but how to show thought in film without resorting to the clumsy device of the voice over?
Other notable movies include the action-charged Terminator Salvation (2009; Kyle Reese), Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010; Ace Zuckerman), and the 2011 films The Smurfs (the voice of Clumsy), Fright Night Charlie Brewsterr), and Like Crazy (Jacob), a romantic drama.
Written between 1914 and 1918, when O'Neill was in his late twenties, the plays — set in a now remote world, where the women are mercenary whores and the men vastly prefer the company of men — are both awful and interesting, the kind of literature you love as a teen-ager, when you're looking for a voice as clumsy as your own to articulate what you feel about the "drama" of life.
Papa Smurf (voiced again by Jonathan Winters, who died in April) travels from Smurf Village with a B-team of lesser Smurfs: Clumsy, Grouchy and Vanity (voiced by Anton Yelchin, George Lopez and John Oliver).
In 1999, the year of that deal, cellular service was erratic, cellphones were clumsy and mostly limited to voice calls, and customers were coping with roaming charges by turning off their phones except when making calls.
