Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President remained his own best witness, as his joint press conference with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair made clear. Press conferences with foreign leaders are normally awkward affairs in which the questions and the answers arrive in separate languages, on separate topics, with separate translators. So Friday's performance was downright surreal: the two golden boys of the Third way, Bill and Tony, speaking the same language, practicing a style of politics one had virtually copied from the other, both touting the virtues of a middle class that works hard and plays by the rules. Except that Clinton...
...bells and gleaming gold clock hands at St. Paul's church are a welcome addition to the Mt. Auburn community of Adams, Lowell and Quincy, houses normally grouped with the River houses. Now, for better or worse, instead of the awkward "Tommy's Houses" moniker which these three houses have earned, they can be called the Bell Houses...
...aunt Debra Finerman, Lewis' partner in the short-lived gossipist career, invited six women who seemed to know the celebrator only casually. "I think everyone at the table was surprised they'd been invited," says a friend. Lewinsky's mother tried to make everyone comfortable, but it was awkward. "I remember how affirming her mother was," says the friend, "to the point that she couldn't possibly have meant what she said, because everything was 'This is so fantastic, this is great, you girls are all so wonderful.'" And then, at the end of the meal, talk-show host Larry...
...people who auditioned with us for a play but didn't get the part. Or maybe we were the ones who didn't get the job or the part, and one of the 3-D people won it in our place. Either way, these people fall into an awkward category. We met them in some situation that we would either like to forget or believe that all normal people have already forgotten, and we therefore aren't allowed to talk to them. And after avoiding eye contact with them for a year or more, unwritten rules forbid us from ever...
...horrible." She was depressed, confused and frightened. Barely out of puberty, "I had a gold medal. Millions. Too much too soon." She didn't have to work another day in her life, and that was part of the problem. If she didn't skate, which suddenly was the most awkward thing in the world, "then what am I supposed...