Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While I played along, and was glad to learn the names of several of my fellow students, all of us, myself included, exchanged little awkward judgmental glances over her shameless display of friendliness. Faces seemed to say "What is she doing?" and "Why is she doing this?" and even "What if I don't want to know these people...
...this dramatic exhibition of seeming omnipartisanship, an opinion piece appeared on these pages, written by a first year computer to The Harvard Crimson. In it, he told of the travails of this publication's gender-neutral mission, which on the occasion of his first news story left his prose awkward and "corrupted" the story's original meaning. Interestingly, he finished his observations on gender neutrality by considering how the above panelists' anti-Radcliffe conclusions could be read as a "support for a more androgynous environment" here at Harvard...
...urban beat. Eight years and 60 million albums, singles and videotapes later, the group -- Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood and Joe McIntyre -- are no longer new and no longer kids. Now in their mid-20s, they have, in show-biz terms at least, reached that other awkward age, groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them rich and famous. So what's an old New Kid to do? Change the band's name, for one thing, to NKOTB (not, obviously, a radical switcheroo) and hire a team...
...hero of I'll Do Anything is Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte), a gentle character actor in a career dry spell. Matt must suddenly start raising his troubled six-year-old daughter Jeannie (Whittni Wright), whom he has not seen in two years. He juggles his awkward responsibilities to Jeannie with his new interest in a junior executive (Joely Richardson) at a production company run by a blustery mogul (Albert Brooks), who is attracted to a truth-telling market researcher (Julie Kavner). Will Matt win the big role? Will the love teams stay united? Will the child, in a plot twist...
...novel questions of etiquette. If the slushway is wide enough for only one, should you wait for the pedestrian 50 yards up ahead coming in the opposite direction to complete his journey before yourself embarking? Or should you choose to ignore him, and halfway along engage in an awkward Snow Dance--strangers in the snow, exchanging footing...