Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edibility. In the end, we consume the creation, take it into our own body. Its edibility not only brings us closer to the work by eliminating the awkward distances between, for instance, the painter and viewer or poet and reader, but the ability to internalize the object (the meal) places us in a position to be seriously, viscerally, even gastro-intestinally affected...
...them to heel, and in a fascinating chapter Vogel recounts how northerners and southerners chose up sides over one issue-land reform. The Cantonese preferred to go slow and easy. Some of the top Cantonese Communists had friends or relatives who were landlords. Taking their land was embarrassing and awkward...
...result of the need for elements of refurbishing and rehabilitation." (That redecoration is now finished, at a personal cost to Annenberg of about $1,000,000, and he and his wife Lee are snugly installed; daughter Wallis does not live in London.) Friends say that Annenberg's awkward circumlocutions are the product of a lifelong speech impediment that has driven him to talk in polysyllables as a disciplinary exercise; twice a day, he sets aside time to practice elocution in private sessions...
...with the awkward graceful bending
...bathroom-pillows on the bathroom floor and in the dry tub, glass bottles from the medicine chest ground under foot, a smear of excrement on the sill. Strangely, Masaryk had gone out the bathroom window even though it was much smaller than the one in the bedroom and very awkward to reach...