Word: awkwardness
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...friends opened his eyes. "I discovered the real world," he says. "They've got the same bills and problems I do." And although his father still won't talk to him, his mother accepted the marriage even before the couple's daughter Lauren, 7, was born. Still, there are awkward moments, even with the more welcoming in-laws. It's confusing "at Thanksgiving at my [maternal] grandparents' house, and my dad is the only white person there," says Chip's stepdaughter Ashley, 13. But, she adds, being part of a mixed-race family does have compensations: "I feel special because...
...which leaves Roh in an awkward position during his White House visit. While campaigning for President, Roh promised to maintain peace on the peninsula at almost any cost, but the North's brinkmanship makes it tougher to argue for dangling carrots instead of wielding sticks. Seoul still wants further discussions and thinks the U.S. might eventually convince Kim to disarm by accepting the North's latest demands for economic assistance. But Washington isn't biting. Even U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as relatively moderate, has refused to embrace the North's blueprint. "This proposal is a nonstarter...
...throats, as they've been for the past 16 months, they are openly and dangerously hostile: mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops, deporting each other's diplomats, test-firing nuclear-capable missiles. But when they start talking, they're almost demure, as if steps towards peace are more awkward than those that might lead...
...same breath as some of Major League Baseball’s brightest young stars, is made an object of ridicule by a gang of barely sober, snot-nosed schoolboys who don’t have half his brain or his maturity. It’s more than a little awkward to see the story of a figure as complicated and fascinating as Lentz reduced to a few punch lines about old skeletons in his closet...
Coming from a man who has played an array of villains, an awkward alien, a gossip columnist and a priest, the vision of art Lithgow promotes is indeed an inclusive one: it spans not only a range of roles and disciplines, but also of participants...