Word: awkwardness
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...visitors in the guestbook came to stake their own claim to this ancestral abode. Crossing the country to visit relatives—cousins once or many times removed—presents me with open arms and hugs from people only rarely seen. What begins as an awkward greeting ritual soon becomes so natural that you become the one initiating all the affection. At one point, I sat in the house of one of my grandmother’s cousins while she ripped out old picture after old picture from her personal photo album, choosing to pass on these images...
Adam Yauch--one-third of the Beastie Boys--will turn 40 in August. In rap years, 40 is 400. That leads to an obvious question that Yauch, in his ancient wisdom, anticipates: "Is it awkward being onstage with a walker? The answer is yes. Yes, it is," he says with a nod of his silver head. "The walker gets caught up in the wires. It can be very dangerous...
...dialogue can be thuddingly expository, and with so many new faces each week, the characterizations are sketchy. But there are also regular courtroom characters, the best of whom is sarcastic judge Horatio Hawthorne, played by Levinson. His delivery is a bit awkward and unactorly, yet it gives the proceedings a note of documentary reality, unlike the pretty and generically well-spoken lawyers...
Harvard right now might strike an awkward balance between the old and the new. Still, I worry that by the time the Class of 2004 returns for its 25th reunion, Harvard undergraduates will face a far more serious problem—that the College they attend will no longer seriously value anything other than number crunching and fact absorption. I hope that it is nothing more a groundless fear. But it is an ironic truth that if Harvard totally discards its aristocratic heritage, the College that remains will be a meritocracy of limited merit...
Remember driving with your parents and hearing a song that had a cringe-inducing bit of innuendo? Remember the awkward silence you shared as they tried to figure out if you knew what it meant and you tried to figure out if they knew you knew? Relive that precious moment with Scandalous, in which the spelling-impaired British hip-hop trio drops such lines as "Solid as a rock/How many ways can you hit the spot" over a lush, string-heavy track that is no less great for sounding as if it had been ripped off from...