Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these questions come at an awkward time for the Clintons. The President was said to be so distracted by the disclosure of the Watkins memo Wednesday night that his mind wandered during the budget talks. As for his wife, the revelations are likely to make it harder for her to take a larger public political role anytime soon...
...EVERY GROWN WOman there is an inner teenage girl--an awkward, dissatisfied someone who longs to be a more alluring someone else. This sadly enduring truth is explored with affecting accuracy in Emerald City (Doubleday; 178 pages; $22.50), a collection of short stories by Jennifer Egan, whose first novel, The Invisible Circus, was published last year to critical praise and encouraging sales...
PBHA is an independent, nonprofit corporation, autonomous from the University. However, Harvard pays the salaries of its 10 staff members, making it awkward when the University's and PBHA's interests conflict...
...treaty signed in Paris last week hardly deserves a standing ovation. Bosnia's awkward division fails to compensate the war's victims and could sow the seeds of the new state's future dismemberment. But while the plan may not be perfect, it is bold, imaginative and offers perhaps the best peace one could hope for in Bosnia's far from perfect world. That seems somehow fitting, if only in the sense that the deal's virtues and its flaws suggest the character of the man who did so much to craft...
...other words, they have fussed with Sabrina, but they have not really engaged it. They have not found the little twinges of pain, the awkward stumbles into vulnerability, that animate the best comedies, and the best love stories too. Wilder's film had a few of them--enough to ensure that the movie and its audience did not feel totally manipulated--but nothing on the grand scale of Thompson's great blowout...