Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have all become accustomed to swiping people into our dormitories without questioning their affiliation with Harvard. Because students frequently need access to houses other than their own and because it is awkward to demand identification of strangers who may look like fellow students, we assume that anyone who asks us for entrance is a student or someone affiliated with the University. If key card access were universal, we would know that anyone who needed our help to enter into a house was not a student. We would thus be more willing to question a visitor's motives when...
Elect a moderator. The council is notorious for being politicized and plagued by factions. The current system also puts the president in an awkward position by saddling her with the job of both champion of her own agenda and moderator of debate. The council should elect one of its members to serve as moderator of debate, a parliamentarian technocrat of sorts, and allow the president and vice-president to fully pursue the agendas that prompted students to support them in the first place...
Critical Care is one of those movies that should come with a big disclaimer before the opening credits: WARNING: This film may contain scenes of grossly oversimplified moral dilemmas and awkward black humor. That would pretty much sum up the new release from veteran director Sidney Lumet and rookie screenwriter Steven S. Schwartz. Marred by crudely conceived, insultingly phony characters and a moral base that is prominent but insincere, the movie dies a slow, drawn out death...
...then there were those who actually lived the awkward scenarios that Tan had only to envision...
Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfectly cast in Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Henry James's novel. An awkward young woman starved for affection is caught between a cynical, distant father and a spirited but selfish young suitor. Holland's camera work and sense of period is engaging throughout, and her trademark comic acuity leavens the somber arc of the story. Eventually, though, Leigh asserts herself just long enough to break your heart. Like its heroine, the film misses true magnificence, but its intelligent cast and sensitive story-telling are more than enough to recommend...