Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...movements originated from minuet dancing, perhaps commenting on old-fashioned dance forms. However, this choice limited the complexity of the performance, and the dancers’ long, obtrusive skirts covered the few challenging steps they executed. Moreover, the sporadic use of a plastic folding chair as a prop looked awkward and arbitrary. Despite the beautifully illuminated, single-file exit of “Untitled,” this piece was on the whole dissatisfying and unexciting...
...When a hotshot young professor of biology named Nick (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and his mousy wife Honey (Elyssa Jakim ’10) move into town, Martha invites them over for some drinks. What begins as an awkward gathering explodes into a game of deceit, violence, and debauchery as Martha and George begin to unveil the dark secrets of their marriage...
...Though I see homeless people on a regular basis, I still have not become desensitized to their plight. I still feel awkward when they ask me for money and I am not able to give. I feel a certain tension when I walk past them, wanting to help them, but knowing that I can’t take away their problems by simply giving them some spare change...
...Shocking is only part of it. Awkward is more of the feeling that I get. I saw homeless people back home in Houston. I’d see them downtown, under freeways, and in other places. It wasn’t the same though. It wasn’t personal in those situations. I’d see people while driving and give them money sometimes, and at other times not give them money. I never really talked to them. It was always an interaction with some distant person that I’d probably never see again...
...works with the Freshman Residential Education Program.She remembered walking through the Yard and being stopped by a freshman.“She was like, ‘Do you remember that joke you made? I was with a guy and it was at that point where it was really awkward and I didn’t know what to say, and I told him the joke and it helped,’” Nowski recalled. “So you never know when a comment that you make at a workshop sinks...