Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the two female marshals said the gender imbalance could make their jobs awkward, some said that gender probably did not play a role in voters' choices...
...Peter Pan collar, written an apology note and then copied it over 100 times, or cringed in fear at the ire of Sister Mary knows that the Catholic school experience is excellent fodder for comedy. Perhaps this explains the inherent humor in the character Mary Katherine Gallagher, the stereotypically awkward and repressed Catholic schoolgirl. Yet even with the infinite funny possibilities its setting provides, Superstar fails to deliver many laughs...
...Russo is one of Hollywood's best kept secrets. Almost every movie she's in (save that monkey mess Buddy) is a bonafide hit. But Russo tends to hide her beauty (even though, ironically enough, she once was a supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric. And the plot of the caper isn't so shabby either; even though we expect stud and vamp to unite in the end, there's enough twists and turns to cloud...
...Sense is really an examination of what we the living need in our lives. It begins by focusing on a trio of outcasts in this world: Bruce Willis as a psychologist estranged from his wife, Toni Collette as a lonely single mom and Haley Joel Osment as her socially awkward son. But before long the film makes isolation a theme capable of transcending worlds. The ghosts in writer/director M. Night Shyamalan's world don't want to hurt the living. They just want to talk to them. And the living are just as desperate to find a willing...
With such limited range, the Radcliffe name might seem like an insignificant asset--or even awkward conversation piece--for most graduates. But some alumnae say it is a crucial tool for establishing relationships with other professional women...