Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1950s, and Benny (really Bernadette) Hogan (Minnie Driver), a plain, awkward girl from a small village, is ripe for a coming-of-age experience. Going off to college with her lifelong friends Nan (Saffron Burrows) and Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe) is just the thing. On the very first day, she meets Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), who enters with a caress from the camera that practically screams "love interest." Sure enough, Jack falls for Benny, preferring her to the beautiful but cold Nan and the charming, impish Eve. Benny's own characteristic--in this movie, nobody has more than...
...cutest, nicest guy at Dublin's Trinity College (Chris O'Donnell) falls in love with a convent-educated country shopkeeper's daughter (Minnie Driver). To him, she's beautiful, no matter how ungainly she thinks she is. And she sees beyond his good looks to the insecure and awkward boy beneath the facade. "Their sweet, determined, gently understated struggle for fulfillment in a superstitiously conservative society makes this movie a quiet joy to behold," says TIME critic Richard Schickel...
Nothing would more damn a book about boredom than if it were boring. Patricia Meyer Spacks's Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind largely avoids that awkward possibility: as literary studies go, in fact, it's a real walk in the park...
Derfner's story serves as testimony that roommates can overcome even the most awkward of moments, the most bitter of disputes, the most moist of teabags. So don't worry. For those rooming groups that fail to bond over Aaron Spelling Productions, there is always the hope of a senior year reconciliation over George Lucas films...
Barbra looked threatened; she guarded her face with her coat lapels, not knowing what to make of these weirdos sniffing tentatively at her. It was all very awkward, so on her approach to University Hall, I caught her eye and greeted her: "Hello, Ms. Streisand...