Word: awkward
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There is a certain charm in how an evening can turn out just right. Three Harvard student bands played for a carefree crowd in the Eliot House courtyard on Monday night. It was the kind of event that is only possible in those awkward and wonderful days before classes begin. A beautiful late summer evening, together with the promise of some of the most engaging musical talent on campus drew people from all different houses. The whimsical green of the Eliot House tower was illuminated from behind the courtyard. Below it, part of the courtyard was illuminated from the ground...
...Serena. Serena's already beaten Lindsay. That girl who used to have the drug problem, Jenny, she's doing great, all healthy and fit again, but she has to dance against Venus and, well, like, no way, right? Then it's just the sisters, and they always look awkward dancing with one another. But it was sweet, too. They said it was the first time two sisters ever danced off for the club championship, and everyone was saying how much better the club is that it now has these terrific girls of color-which never used to happen. Take that...
Being an enemy of the awkward pause, I attempted to strike up a conversation...
...scenes, McKnight was physically awkward, seeming uncomfortable and unsure on stage, at his worst in the second act when he attempted to play drunk...
...then, Katharine Graham was the most powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek--which Phil had acquired in 1961--and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown, she was Walter Lippmann and Perle Mesta rolled into one. Much has been made of her salon--the network stars, the Vice Presidents, the gray eminences. But her reach was deeper. She was the connective tissue for the permanent substratum of the capital--the one layered with beat reporters, academics...