Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...here the relative freedom a sequel can bring. The first film in a series is like an awkward first date. Once they are past the getting-to-know-you stage, writers can flesh out characters they could only sketch in the initial film. Any critic could name a fistful of follow-ups that outshone originals: The Bride of Frankenstein; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Road Warrior; Aliens; Batman Returns. In TV, improving with age is the norm: a good sitcom, whether Mary Tyler Moore or South Park, ripens in its third or fourth season. Films used...
They have some beautiful women combined with some pretty great tennis. It was awkward when the Williams sisters were playing by themselves. It makes it more interesting if there are two, three, four more players in the mix. That's why the women's game was doing so well. [Martina] Hingis was in the picture; Steffi [Graf] was there. People had more feeling about the players. There are too many other options for fans to not do a better job of that. The players have to realize that. If they had any idea of what Billie Jean [King...
...It’s no wonder his books and movies have made such a killing in Europe. A new French comedy called L’Americain (The American) satirizes a foolish young Frenchman who is convinced he wants to be American. The movie’s advertisement features an awkward looking young man posing as the stereotypical “stupid American.” This attitude is duly reflected in Britian’s Jerry Springer: The Opera—a musical parody of the infamous talk show which lampoons America’s most upstanding citizens, satirizing...
...bring the conflict to a complete close, but it signaled the beginning of the end. Over the next few years, all four of the Barbary States signed treaties with America renouncing piracy, kidnapping and blackmail. Algiers had to be bombarded a few more times, and there was an awkward moment during negotiations in Washington when the Tunisian representative, Sidi Soliman Melli Melli, made it clear that he expected to be amused at public expense by some ladies of the night. (Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison were able to arrange an off-the-record State Department budget for that purpose...
...Blackwill seems like the last man you would want for a sensitive diplomatic mission. He shouts. He interrupts. He grandstands and pontificates. "He's a vain son of a bitch," says a former colleague. "Human relations are not his strong suit," says another. With his high-pitched giggle and awkward bearing, the fleshy former Harvard professor comes across in unguarded moments as eccentric and condescending. His jokes fall flat; his attempts to ingratiate just grate...