Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorman case provides the Assemblies of God with an awkward precedent as it ponders what to do about Swaggart. After Swaggart demanded that leaders of the denomination's Louisiana district act, he summoned Gorman to his home in Baton Rouge for a confrontation. Swaggart insisted that Gorman be given no special treatment just because he ran a big church. Gorman was immediately defrocked...
Dunster House diners seemed favorably amused by his exhibition. "It was cool," commented Jay Reingold '89. "Chickwiches are my favorite meal anyway, and the harpsichord music was pleasant. There were none of the usual awkward pauses in lunchtime conversation; Igor was always there. And we loved his hair...
...those skaters who didn't pass the conventional glamour test had to design thrilling, athletic choreography, the kind of choreography that puts ice skating in the category of sport. No viewer can fairly say that the judges were biased against Debi Thomas--she stumbled and fell, she seemed awkward and unconfident. But it does seem that Witt won without the disadvantages Thomas and other skaters had to face: namely risky, exciting moves. While the audience waited anxiously to glimpse skaters perform a daring sequence of triple-jumps, who among the viewers held his or her breath while Witt flirted with...
Greene made two slow, awkward revolutions, and plunged to the water before finishing the dive, landing flat on her back. The flop gave her three scores of one, the lowest she has ever received in college competition...
...lead during the short program, then skated away from the pack with a seemingly flawless performance in the longer freestyle event. The Soviets, who have claimed every Olympic pairs gold medal since 1964, also placed second and fourth. The top U.S. pair, Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard, survived an awkward spill early in the long program to capture the bronze and win America's first medal at Calgary...