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...matter how much Veber paints Pignon as a really likeable, sweet guy who makes matchstick models of famous monuments such as the Eiffel Tower to numb his broken heart, he remains the idiot. All the misadventures he causes stem from his kindness and gratitude toward Bronchant. This is the awkward basis of the farce...
...York to spend the rest of my vacation in Hong Kong. I look forward to the trip not only for the chance to be with my family and to sleep until mid-afternoon; once there, I will also take part in what has become a enjoyable but slightly awkward ritual among me and my Hong Kong friends. Several times a week, I will get together with the dozen or so people who have come for the summer from all over the world as if we were the closest friends ever existed, while at the same time trying my best...
Adiza Sanchez-Rahim, 12, knew nothing about violin when Roberta visited her first-grade class six years ago. Adiza is at an awkward age, but when she picks up the violin, she assumes a defiant grace. After all, she has taken lessons at Juilliard, performed in Switzerland and played for Oprah Winfrey. Says Adiza: "I'd be totally different without violin...
...even as I watched tape after tape of my awkward, pimply self trying to justify my life, my apparently indestructible ego was still wondering how MTV could have not picked me. So I called Jonathan Murray, one of the show's producers. "We weren't sure what was going on with your dating life. It seemed pretty dormant," he said. When I sounded confused, he clarified. "You definitely weren't going to be the hunk in the show." I said that depended on what point viewers were in their menstrual cycle. He didn't know what I was talking about...
...asked on a television show what he would have done with his life, given a choice. After an awkward pause--a rare thing, indeed--he admitted he couldn't think of anything other than boxing. That is all he had ever wanted or wished for. He couldn't imagine anything else. He defended boxing as a sport: "You don't have to be hit in boxing. People don't understand that...