Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slow death of William from AIDS is supposed to be transformative for Ray and Cora. William shows up as the relationship disintegrates and both relationship and William proceed to die. Rather than stirring immediate sympathy, the introduction of William is awkward because he has hardly been mentioned before and is promptly given center stage. Fisher can't really handle such a big topic, and William serves mainly to delay the finality of Ray and Cora's split...
...true romantic style, fall in love while flying/dancing/singing their way across the night sky. Never mind that they've known each other all of about five minutes; their ice-skating-like pas de deux across the golden, glittering surface of a lake is much more interesting than the giggling, awkward scene where they meet...
...race of the punished and the race of the punishers. Black students are twice as likely to end up in the dungeon as white students; in fact, black students are twice as likely to end up disciplined throughout the entire Cincinnati public school system. It is a particularly awkward statistic for a school district mired in a 20-year-old desegregation suit. So awkward, in fact, that the board of education has agreed to an explosive remedy: if a judge concurs, the Cincinnati public schools (CPS) will soon start tracking the race of the teacher as well as the student...
...means should you tell this person to his face. Perhaps you could take a picture with a good lens and then poster the Yard. This is a far less confrontational way to gently inform him, and it avoid what would be several very awkward moments...
...Delta," a Course Assistant, found himself in an awkward position. Although there were several men and women in the section he was leading whom he would have liked to be friend, to do so would have been a breach of University policy. Now, after the class has ended, he feels that it is almost impossible to change the relation he established with his students. "Once you establish yourself, once you have said 'I'm your CA and we are not going to be friends, we can be friendlybut we can't be friends,' it seems impossible to change that...