Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feels like much more a half-hearted throwback than anything else. Oberst has bought into his own personality cult, and as a result, his homegrown pretensions, once endearing, become unbearable. The first track begins by recounting the story of some victim of a plane crash in his romantic-comedy-awkward style, before launching into the song itself. Oberst gets the point across with characteristic subtlety: he’s a storyteller, dammit...
...interactions between Jones and Smith provide the charismatic highlights of an often poorly written movie. The contrast between their two styles (Caucasian and awkward, African-American and smooth) creates unsurprising but still amusing physical fun, particularly during the lessons on dancing styles and the need for restraint during the first move...
This is not When Harry Met Sally, but Hitch does perform one of that film’s most astonishing tricks: Hitch believably turns Kevin James into a romantic lead worthy of Amber Valletta. If nothing else, the film is inspiring for all those goofy, awkward, smart Harvard men with few social skills. Come on guys, you know...
...sort of real success, and most have been rather dismal failures. This past fall’s freshman “second chance dance” stands out as a particularly good example of what happens when event planning in Loker goes awry: slim crowds, an excessive amount of awkward milling and very little student enjoyment...
...maybe even three beers is good, having twenty is not. Even one student hospitalization will convince the administration that pub night isn’t worth the effort since. If nothing else we agree with Corker that Friday turns out be a “non-awkward gathering,” but we hope, and think, that it can be much more than just that...