Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the novel is simply a working out of what has been said and left unsaid at this funeral supper (congratulations to the widow are unspoken, of course), it's not the worst way to tell a story. One plot contrivance, however, seems awkward: as a young man, we're told, Billy fell loony in love with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that...
...rising playwright from the midwest, Julie Johnson is both emotionally challenging and wildly funny. Though it tackles issues ranging from sexual identity to motherhood, from middle-age stagnancy to the isolating effects of technology, the work is most successful as a tale of emotional introspection and human relationships. Though awkward in its moralizing aspirations, the play is elegant in its dealing with interpersonal relationships and personal frustrations of daily existence...
...neighbors, Halloween is fast becoming an excuse for adults in feathered masks and body paint to indulge in public foreplay. Already costumes are almost de rigueur, replacing even airline uniforms. I know this because I spent last Halloween evening between planes in a major hub airport, feeling distinctly awkward in slacks and blazer because the ticket agent was a playful witch and the devil himself X-rayed my bags...
...multiplex masses pour into Scream 2 to learn who's trying to carve up poor Neve this time, Williamson will be poring over the decidedly calmer dailies for Dawson's Creek, a coming-of-age TV series whose adolescent anxieties are resolved not by gleaming cutlery but by awkward, angsty dialogue (though the dead-on post-grunge sound track remains the same). Debuting next month on the WB network, the quiet, thoughtful Dawson is about as far removed from slasherdom as you can get and still have L.A.'s BMW brigade return your calls...
...release date, had come and gone. Yet as the weeks ticked by, the obsessive Cameron showed no sign of completing his editing. Titanic was going to be in dry dock right through summer--the best season for earning back the oceans of money Fox had spent. It was an awkward situation, to say the least, for a guy starting...