Word: awkwardness
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These plot developments in the beauty shop strengthen and help negate the story’s weak beginning, marked by hazy transitions, awkward close-ups, and forced character histories. When Norris comes into her own with her new workers at the shop, the film gains a heightened and refreshing energy...
With more exposition and development, it’s possible that Farhad’s murderous instinct could have been rounder or that the near murder of a little girl could have been less hammy. This incarnation is so awkward that what should be very moving borders on comical; it’s one step away from the Dr. Evil cry when the steamroller is across the room in Austin Powers...
...sixth grade, most of us didn’t have to deal with the regret that inevitably follows taking one too many shots. We didn’t know about beer pong, or funnels, or Everclear, choosing instead to spend our time at awkward dances and single-sex sleepovers. But while we were crowding around the punch bowl in the school gym and playing video games in our basements, 15-year-old Rachel E. Porter was stuck watching drunken friends throw up all over themselves. She describes a particularly “traumatic” incident at the annual Dunster...
...awkward getting down the plane's steps, because I am juggling the crutches and a purse, a camera and a packet of letters from the families of POWs. I look up to see five Vietnamese walking toward me carrying flowers. They are the welcoming committee of the Vietnam Committee for Solidarity with the American People. The name sounds propagandistic to me, but the fullness of its meaning will soon be made clear in unusual, very human terms. As I'd anticipated, they look shocked and want to hand me the bouquet, but I can't hold it and the crutches...
...least, that emphasis has worked wonders. Otellini, the first nonengineer to helm Intel, has been stressing consumer-friendly products over speedier chips in his speeches for the past four years (he calls the strategy by the awkward name "platformization"). He put the plan to work in 2003 with another of his pet projects--the Centrino--a set of chips specifically designed for wi-fi-enabled laptops. For wi-fi capability, all you really need is the Pentium M, the chip at the heart of Centrino, but Otellini wanted to sell a bundle of chips along with it that would help...