Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Your [British television] interview with Garry Shandling was notoriously awkward. Were you disappointed with it? -Paul Gaughan Sheffield, EnglandNo, I loved it. I didn't find it awkward, except when I pointed out that he looked a bit like Bingo from [the children's show] The Banana Splits. He didn't know who that...
...discuss economic situations in a personal context. “Harvard students talk about economic and social segregation, but only in an academic context. When I would talk to people about my financial situation, other people would become very uncomfortable in their body language, or there would be awkward silences,” says Rachel A. Culley ’07. During her time at Harvard, Culley was both a recipient of HFAI and a student coordinator for the program...
...rolling around on the floor to precise ballet poses. Partway through the song, many dancers re-converged to climb up a pole on the stage and extended their arms to the dancers on the floor, while others continued to roll and jump about the stage. Overall, the improvisation was awkward, and this comical, scatterbrained section was a slightly unsettling conclusion to the precisely structured show that preceded it.Nevertheless, on the whole, “Off the Page” demonstrated the fluidity of dance as an art form, progressing from classical ballet to gymnastic modern movements with ease. The show...
...instantly likable, both as the narrator and as the voice of reason in the film. Jason Bateman (“The Break Up”), who plays Henry the accountant, tries hard to be mundane and formal, but only succeeds in coming off as slightly socially awkward. There is perhaps one element of the film that might have appealed to young and old alike: the development of Portman and Bateman’s flirty tension into something more. Kids love cute couples, and adults would enjoy observing the chemistry between the “Star Wars” queen...
...middle of your chest, artfully and messily tied. I decided to take a scarf for a test-drive this week and see if I felt more glamorous and/or was inclined to make elaborate hand motions while laughing in a tinkling, musical manner. At first, I felt a bit awkward wearing my sunglasses and a huge scarf together, worried that I would resemble a sort of highly fashionable rogue C.I.A. agent. Yet after a while, I started to greatly enjoy the feeling of bohemian liberation I would experience while tossing my scarf over my face and flirting with several similarly bohemian...