Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...running for a third four-year term, Putin stepped down as President, chose ally Dmitri Medvedev as a successor and then took the post of Prime Minister for himself. Widely regarded as a placeholder President, Medvedev has no political power base of his own, little charisma and a rather awkward habit of trying to imitate Putin's macho demeanor. Many of his key advisers once worked on Putin's staff...
...Precious, the hit indie film about a pregnant, illiterate teenage girl whose teacher goads her toward self-worth. Both Michael and Precious begin as scholastic failures with awful moms and no hope who are reclaimed and saved by a caring adult woman. Except that, here, we see the awkward teen through the eyes of his white benefactor. Leigh Anne's first visit to Michael's old neighborhood is treated like Margaret Mead landing on Samoa. She delivers tough love to Michael's mother and tough lip to the local drug lords. At times, she can be caustic to her beloved...
...Longy School of Music” (Okay, Longy is on the way to the Quad, we know. But we didn’t know that the whacked-out, sleep-deprived, and socially-awkward subscribers of the Lampoon are just what Longy is looking...
After spending the whole summer in Cambridge working out and preparing for the season, Ryabkina suffered an awkward fall while taking some shots during an unofficial captain’s practice. That fall, which her coach Katey Stone described as a “freak accident,” kept Ryabkina out of action for eight weeks and rehabilitating her knee while teammates were practicing maneuvers...
Nonetheless, as Obama returns to pressing domestic issues and international flash points such as Iran and Afghanistan, two awkward numbers linger in the background: 3.5 and 8.9. The first is the rate of growth for the U.S. in the third quarter of 2009; the second is how fast China grew. And while GDP statistics are a flawed indicator, the contrast between the two economies remains stark...