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...last I had heard of Chelsea Clinton, she was just a little child about to embark on her adolescent adventures in the public eye. I remembered the ugly things that had been written and said about her in the press, all those phrases with the words 'pubescent' and 'awk-ward' in them. Was she nearing college age? What would she be doing at Harvard? Surely...
Another goal of the Iowa program is to combat what the institute calls the "battered writer syndrome," i.e., student papers that are slashed with red pencil in the margins-awk for awkward phrase, dangle for dangling participles and modifiers-without any comments on substance. Says Iowa's David Hamilton: "Once you and the writer agree on what he is trying to say, then you can come to agreement about how to put it into form...
...female character turned into such an abject creature. The fact that Actors Melato and Giannini, who starred together as well in Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi, are so wonderfully skillful only tips the movie's emotional imbalance further. They bring an awk ward poignancy, a true but misplaced tenderness to Wertmuller's ruthless and unruly romance...
...higher orders tumble back down upon his head, groundless, as often as they manage to make the grade. Coleman is forever uncertain of the proper distance to keep from his proletarian brothers, usually resolving the conflict between his roles as observer and participant by digging his own hole, struggling awk-wardly off by himself while contenting himself that he is indeed slaving with others. And Coleman's vision is ultimately rather confined and earthly, curiously avoiding the more important issues one would expect him to examine--even after just two months as a worker...
...deep as ever between the Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. But the two populations have developed a working coexistence that has been one of the small comforts of the Arab-Israeli deadlock. Thanks to Is rael's live-and-let-live occupation policy, the two communities have been awk ward, but relatively peaceable neighbors since...