Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a lack of handicapped access [to the recycling centers]," he said. "Many of the buildings were not built with loading docks in mind, and getting around is awkward [for collection trucks...
...seems utterly bored with Davis' life, more acutely with his girlfriends and particularly with the script or lack thereof. Most of the vignettes are minimalist sketches requiring a great deal of concentration from the actors and even more patience from the audience. With an excess of dead air and awkward exchanges, some studied but others accidental, the audience loses confidence that Davis will pull out a satisfying conclusion...
...Latin. He marvels at fingerprinting, then just coming into use in Paris, and at "instantaneous" communication by pneumatic tubes. For a time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This doesn't look good ... Alone with a dead body. Again. Your appetite for mayhem appears insatiable ... It will go more easily with you if you just tell the truth." The suspense here is not unbearable since we know that the real Adams was not guillotined...
...York Times is planning to go on-line this fall at http://www.nytimes.com and currently puts up the eight-page Times Fax at http://www.nytimesfax.com, albeit in Adobe Acrobat, a format somewhat awkward to download and read...
...performers. They weren't the ones with the highest IQs; they were the ones whose E-mail got answered. Those workers who were good collaborators and networkers and popular with colleagues were more likely to get the cooperation they needed to reach their goals than the socially awkward, lone-wolf geniuses...