Word: awkwardness
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...little bit dim herself, and possibly affected by her close proximity to her sister's situation. Debbie is a faithful wife who's reached that awkward age where guys are no longer hitting on her. Worse, her husband (Paul Rudd) is withdrawing from her. She thinks he's having an affair, but he's not. What he's sneaking out of the house in search of is quiet male bonding - evenings with the guys that lack the shrillness of his wife's (and kids) restlessness...
...consistently clear and often quite potent. But more and more, it seems, there will be some sentence or citation - or a blatant omission - that inadavertently ignites controversy, if not outright rage against the Pope. The Vatican eventually kicks into damage-control mode, and finally, Benedict is left with the awkward task of serious papal (and public) backtracking. Indeed, there was a "here-we-go-again" buzz circulating among Vatican insiders as the Pope went out of his way this week to clarify his view of the Christian colonization of Latin America that he'd laid out on his recent trip...
...isolation inside the infamous “Harvard bubble.” Another criticism of television in dorm rooms is that it would detract from the communal experience of gathering in common rooms. But strangers do not meet in common rooms to bond over commercial breaks. They merely share awkward moments when one person treks to the basement for a basketball game while the next one fancies Jack Bauer. Most students do not wish to be disturbed or fight over the remote. The plan thus seems like a win-win situation—students who want satellite television could...
...days leading up to the penalty phase of the trial, some of the victims' families stood in a seemingly awkward alliance with the family of Juan Luna, the man convicted of the crime, denouncing the death penalty as an inhumane punishment. Thursday evening they got their wish. The verdict took only two hours of deliberation, and it ensures that Luna, convicted last Thursday after a 14-day trial, will spend the remainder of his life in prison. James Degorski, the second man charged in the case, one of Illinois' longest-running murder mysteries and worst massacres, is expected...
...North Vietnamese while covering a battle in Cambodia. Before she and her five colleagues were released from their 23-day ordeal, a media report suggested that her body may have been found. The resulting attention --including a family memorial service and an obit in the New York Times--was awkward for the modest Webb, who recently referred to the trauma as causing "a bit of a stir at home." She was 64 and had cancer...