Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration determined that its problem was centered in a collection of discussion groups, called Usenet newsgroups, with awkward but functional titles like alt.sex, rec.arts.erotica and alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. The "binary" groups are the most controversial, for they contain codes that savvy computer users can translate into pictures and movie clips. The university's initial decision was to pull the plug on all the major "sex" newsgroups and their subsidiary sections -- more than 80 categories altogether...
Brought up in Jamestown, New York, by a fun-loving mother and a dismissive stepfather, Ball headed to Manhattan in 1926 to pursue show business. Although she was not considered beautiful, she worked as a fashion model and an awkward chorus girl before winning a contract with RKO studios in Los Angeles...
...monster's birth scene in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" is a microcosm of the film's strengths and weaknesses. The creature and his creator wrestle in a mesmerizing but awkward dance through the laboratory, slick with the creature's birth fluid. Branagh's interpretation of the Frankenstein story is thematically sound and visually arresting, though often gruesome. Yet its director/star/co-producer is never able to wrestle the film, its camera or script into a graceful waltz...
...film's birth scenes. In the first, Victor Frankenstein's mother dies in caesarean delivery performed by her husband. Though physically (and graphically) destroying the mother, the birth produces a joyful child who is a delight from his first moments. The monster's birth, however, is an awkward torment. The doctor/father/mother/creator wrestles with a newborn twice his size in a bath of amniotic fluids. The child attempts to kill his mother immediately on emerging from his copper womb, struggling to use his malformed limbs and decaying mind in an act of revenge...
Ordinary Israelis demanded action, but the government's awkward response showed how difficult it is to combat uncompromising radicals who are willing to die in order to kill. One thing Rabin said he would not do is halt the peace process between Israel and Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. That, he said, would only hand Hamas the victory it seeks...