Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ellie Greenwich, mostly with her then husband Jeff Barry. The book, concocted by a committee that clearly never arrived at any binding resolutions, seems unable to settle on whether it should showcase those mostly upbeat anthems or chronicle the composers' mostly downbeat lives. The songs are treated with an awkward mix of reverence and mockery; the lives are reduced to cartoons. Singer Darlene Love, a veteran of Greenwich's heyday, announces at the outset that she is entitled to recount the story because she was part of it; but thereafter she is never seen interacting with the surrogate Ellie (Dinah...
...that he lasted so long. Particularly after his rival Donald Regan became White House chief of staff last January, Stockman's days were numbered. Yet unfortunately for the White House, the announcement coincided with the climax of negotiations on the budget for fiscal 1986. "The timing was very awkward," said one official. "It added a complication at a very delicate moment." It came during a week in which Reagan threw in the towel on restraining middle-class entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, leaving Congressmen groping with illusory savings and phony numbers (see following story) in their efforts...
...taken me four years to realize something very basic about Harvard students: we’re more-or-less normal. We may be, as a group, a little better-read and a little more socially awkward than college students elsewhere—but, pace popular conceptions of us, we aren’t really very remarkable. The disconnect between imagined Harvard and actual Harvard is uncomfortable even for those who know us best: my brother and my father, for instance, call me “Harvard” (as in, “Nice job, Harvard!”) only...
...President Bush flew to Rome today for the Pope's funeral. It was a very somber moment. There was an awkward moment today when Bush met a group of Cardinals and congratulated them on beating the Astros." --CRAIG FERGUSON
...Congeniality 2 is a very predictable piece of fluff, but, sometimes, a sweet comedy sequel that knows exactly what it’s doing is more enjoyable than a failed philosophical epic (think Matrix Reloaded). While occasionally slow and awkward (and about twenty minutes too long), the movie is a light guilty pleasure in which everyone can enjoy indulging...