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...Club Venus is student-written, and it displays moments of the awkward staging and unconvincing dialogue which one would expect from this type of production. But this play is stuffed with enough candor, vigorous acting and insight to more than compensate for any imperfection in expression...
...bargaining table with a liquor-soaked, showgirl-ogling foray to a Western nightclub. Today's post-glasnost Soviet diplomat, however, displays a greater sensitivity, in no small part prompted by dealings with tough and informed female U.S. negotiators during the long workdays. But with progress come some awkward moments. Last month a top Soviet delegate to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva rose to bid goodbye to an American counterpart, a young blond woman. Struggling for an appropriate send-off, he confided, "I would just like to say we will always remember you for your . . . warhead counts...
When I was a freshman at Duke University, orientation consisted of posture tests in a drafty gym and an awkward mixer in the chapel parking lot. We received a reading list before our arrival that included such books as Black Rage and Living with Sex: The Student's Dilemma, but no one bothered to discuss them with us. Adrift in the temporary calm between Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the shootings at Kent State, we struggled to survive the transition from high school to college with as much grace as we could muster. Being a freshman...
...friend of mine told me he found it hilarious that a woman had once told him that rich kids have alcoholic parents too. While the assertion was certainly awkward, the "rich kids" I know with alcoholic parents might not find the situation as funny as he does. There are people who believe that money is an effective buffer against suffering, and on the most basic level of comfortable subsistence, they are correct. But to think that money acts as a buffer for all pain is a simplistic and materialist notion that only reinforces classist myths...
...then, mercifully, Fred's bus pulls up. "Think you'll go to law school?" is the last thing I hear from Fred, as I chalk up yet another great awkward conversation...