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...course there are the awkward but unavoidable conversations with some well-wisher who asks the question no one should ask: “So what’s your thesis about?” I get the question everywhere: on the shuttle, before class, after class, waiting in line to check my e-mail in the Science Center, from the girl in the bathroom stall next to mine in Lamont…who I don’t even know, by the way. Here’s a hint: I’ve been thinking and writing about this...
...Awkward silence...
...hilarious moments even beyond the less-than-stellar backing music and West’s corny delivery, such as his indictment of slaves’ having been forced to work on ‘ugly plantations’...It’s when the music is at its most awkward that the album hits its low points. Nails-on-chalkboard synthesizers drive the horrible backing tracks of ‘Stolen King’ (an anti-slavery screed that sounds like a bad Prince imitation) and ‘3Ms’ (Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm...
...Crimson extended its lead with five minutes to play in the game. Pell sailed towards the net and fired a shot that never left the ice, beating Barrie through the five-hole from an awkward angle...
When I started at Harvard last fall, the harassment diminished but my flamboyance and inappropriate comments did not. Throughout freshman week, I filled awkward pauses in conversation by admiring the boys in Annenberg: “Is this the butcher shop? I am seeing way too much hot meat!” People laughed, but I began to question whether my flamboyance was a legitimate part of my identity or a socially constructed defense mechanism...