Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Observing these blessed creatures, coveting their unearned good fortune, is Damon's Ripley, more muted and awkward than they but a fast study. Ripley's outsider status is what especially appealed to Minghella, 45, a playwright and former professor whose Italian immigrant parents still make and sell ice cream on the Isle of Wight. "This sense of a man with his nose pressed up against the window, the sense that there's a better life being led by other people--to me, these feelings are familiar and pungent...
...thrilling rendition of "Naughty Baby" and her catfights with both Bobby's mother (Jenn Hyman ??) and Polly. Roth's ultimate love interest is found in Lank Hawkins (Jonathan Steinberger '01), a gun-toting, tough-talking, scene-stealing cowboy, who, along with Ben Kornell '02 as the ever-awkward Moose and Nick Weil '00 as the would-be actor Wyatt, provides some of the funniest moments in "Crazy for You." Irene and Lank's duo in the number "Naughty Baby" is one of the show's highest points...
...that I know of, but (awkward silence...
...Dreyfus wears a tie-dye shirt, a pony-tail, and has that distinguishable awkward feel to him that only a gifted science student could possess. Most importantly, however, he rocks back and forth with his torso, constantly gyrating when searching for an answer and sometimes even stops the tape to ease the pressure that seems to come out of nowhere. His answers are never immediate, but when they are uttered they are shot out at rapid fire, so fast the answers are sometimes confusing. To get a sense of Dreyfus' platform check http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dreyfus. And if you want...
...before he finished that, she looked well past him--the rim of the skyline back of his shoulders--and there was an odd cloud forming itself in the shape of a dark bird rushing toward her. She met the angel's eyes again, gave an awkward nod and said, "I'm Miriam. Let me be God's slave...