Word: awkward
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...girl with a nose ring manages to keep the snot from her cheeks when she sneezes. And of course, like any 13-year-old boy, he is fascinated by the insoluble mystery of girls. The author does a commendable job of describing all the confused longings and awkward fumblings of a preteen boy in his first sexual experience...
Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...
...leave Harvard. The particular Ivy League name they bear is newsworthy in the same way as a Scottie Pippen trade. The second answer is that people in the “Real World” are attracted to controversy and stories of intrigue, especially where Harvard is placed in awkward and embarrassing situations. But West is not the only eminent scholar to leave Harvard under murky circumstances, and others that have don’t receive even a fraction of the national media attention that West has received...
...staging allows the maidens to weave between the dragoon guards, creating a playful tension without overcrowding the stage. At times however, as in “Let the Merry Cymbals Sound,” the final scene of Act I, the more complicated staging seems visibly difficult and awkward. Such problems seem like they could have been remedied with additional rehearsal time...
...pushed the envelope,” Smith says. “You can be as ‘actress’ as you want to be,” says his co-star Abigail L. Fee ’05, “but it’s still awkward.” She recalls that in the early stages of rehearsals, Frankie J. Petrosino ’03, buck’s writer and director, would have the actors hold hands as they read through the play’s many sex scenes. Fee says it was a good...