Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...amused by restless lads and to admire their odd-ball teacher. But director Nicholas Hytner's film version of a play everyone thought was "cinematic? (mostly because it contained some film pieces) is an improvement on the original. It has a flow and an intimacy that the often awkward theatrical version lacked. And it employs the same cast that played it in London and New York and the relatively minor changes Bennett has made in adapting it to the screen are negligible in their effect. The History Boys remains what it has always been - watchable, mildly witty, not particularly gripping...
...started the class by asking one of those ridiculously easy and obvious questions to the class that no one wants to answer out of fear of getting labeled by their classmates as a suck-up. An awkward 30-second silence followed with everyone staring blankly at one another. Just wanting to put an end to it, I blurt out the obvious answer...
Third, Yale was so surprised by their own victory that they had no idea how to act like winners. When the Eli cheerleaders attempted to celebrate Yale’s final touchdown, the push-ups were simply too much for many of their weary biceps. (Awkward...
...tension throughout “Knife in the Water,” a three-person drama about a couple who, out of guilt, invite a hitchhiker who they’ve almost run over out for a day of boating. The anxiety explored in this film is of the awkward sexual variety, as the husband competes to prove his superior virility through a series of contrived tests of masculinity.What differentiates “High and Low” and “Knife in the Water” from modern attempts to wrestle with the issues they discuss (besides...
...guilty. It is the vicious plague of diarrhea produced by the Harvard University Dining Services. So listen, HUDS, it’s time to cut down on that chicken tikka masala. Because how are we supposed to be attracted to females if we are constantly reminded of the most awkward fact of human life: girls poop. That saucy little crush of yours might say that she’s getting up to “wash her hands,” but we know that she’s really running off to hatch a venomous chocolate bowl dragon...