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Director Larry Charles, a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” vet, knows how to work with this style of confrontational comedy (popular on shows now from “Curb” to “The Colbert Report”), milking awkward pauses and misunderstandings for all their comedic gold. The lengths Cohen goes to in the effort to actually offend people are staggering; his Southern dinner party doesn’t end until he orders an African-American hooker sent to the plantation house of his hosts...
...gripes with the third requisite component of student promotion at the Science Center are the most substantive and the most pressing. As everyone knows, and as one of my fellow columnists illuminated just the other week, Harvard is a very awkward place. Given the requirements for admission to a place as competitive as this one, I don’t think this is going to change anytime soon...
...Awkward dancing...
...Seriously. This isn’t a joke, and it most definitely isn’t sarcasm. Think of the health and welfare of your fellow students, think of how many more people might show up if they didn’t associate your event with “awkward,” or think of the practical benefits of not publicly demeaning yourself. Whatever motivation is best, follow through on it and, together, we can make the area in front of the Science Center the best wind-swept concrete wasteland in the Ivy League...
...disappointment of many attendees, no one addressed the big pink elephant in the room: is it OK for homosexuals to act on their desires? It’s a question that neither side wanted to tackle because of the obviously awkward and potentially destructive nature of such a debate...