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...that Deng had cast his lot with this ideologically rigid Gang of Elders, as the group was dubbed. Such fears were buttressed by renewed government denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization," the phrase that presaged a conservative crackdown two years ago. Some Chinese found a good deal of irony in the awkward situation. "The 80-year-olds," commented one wag, "are calling meetings of 70-year-olds to decide which 60-year-olds should retire...
During her junior year, Katsias went abroad for a semester, and she says that when she returned she and Smith felt awkward together. "When I went to England last spring, it was kind of hard because we hadn't seen each other in a long time," Katsias says. "We weren't really sure of how we wanted things...
...Bill Windsor, the awkward, understanding bridge between fantasy and "reality," Jim Marino gets the job done. Brazaitis completely immerses himself in the drama's insanity. But he also adds a religious dimension to Gerald's comic cluelessness, a serious conflict that, of course, evaporates by the drama's chaotic conclusion...
...awkward position for the franchisees who may not be anti-women's rights, but their proceeds do go up the chain to the owners," Ireland said...
...Released on $50,000 bond three weeks after the appellate-court ruling, Adams was soon out of his orange prison uniform and into a borrowed shirt and tie, then whisked off to a Houston studio to appear on Nightline, the first of a slam-bang round of television appearances. Awkward at first, Adams quickly seemed as comfortable as Tom Hanks discussing his latest movie on Johnny Carson's couch. For the moment, prying reporters have become as ever present as guards. On the plane to Ohio, flight attendants passed food trays bucket-brigade style over the backs of cameramen crouched...