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...While awkward transitions make for difficult reading (a kind of language violation that Orwell politicized in "1984") the bizarre thematic violations make the book feel false and even hypocritical. One of Rall's consistent objects of parody, the use of irony as a disaffecting, unempathic "attitude," is embodied in the "2024" catchphrase, "Yes. No. Whatever." Yet Rall's entire book reads like an exercise in ironic detachment. He even uses it for gags, as when Winston rebelliously listens to the two-hit 1980s group Quiet Riot. We never care about the characters because Rall doesn't want...
...defensive scheme was executed perfectly. But Wente stepped to his side and hurled an awkward left-handed shot that sailed through the hoop and gave Princeton a miraculous, come-from-behind victory...
...choice is awkward and difficult. If we don’t like something that Hedge Fund X has money in, we have very few choices,” Daniel says. “If you walk away from someone who has terrific returns for Harvard, that’s not an easy decision to make. If you walk away from an investor like that, you don’t get back...
...saved me hours in that company car I drove so cluelessly around town when I was using it for work (before I hijacked it). GPS is already helping thousands of Japanese keep track of elderly parents, wayward toddlers and straying pets. Next year-who knows? - it could help an awkward, well-meaning member of Generation Y more satisfactorily establish whether that brooding soccer-playing kid really is her soul mate...
Despite its romantic allure to the aging among us, being nineteen really isn?t all that great. You?re awkward, you?re trying to figure out what you want to do with your life, you?re experimenting with potentially disastrous hairstyles. Not the best moment to have the lens of national press mashed up against...