Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...desirable macho-jock type hasn't got such pull. There's a reason the Rock and Vin Diesel haven't filled the gap left by Schwarzenegger and Stallone: nobody minds the gap. And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool...
...weekend, for me, there was something missing under my seersucker blazer. Beneath my beer stained polo shirt was, and is, the heart of a guy who never wanted college to be a perfectly packaged social experience. So what if Harvard tends to be that awkward, nerdy cousin, who seems more comfortable quoting Foucault than crushing beer cans. Give him a chance. I promise that with a little seersucker and a mint julep in hand, you’ll hardly recognize...
...there was a central point of interest, it would be Priour. The experienced student actor was captivating as soon as he stepped onstage, adorably polite and awkward as he endured Meg’s incessant chattering. When Priour was on stage, the stage belonged to him—even if he was only sitting in a chair twiddling his thumbs at stage right, while two of his clients were in the throes of passion upon the bed at stage center...
...book, but Gawker and others will make better sense of lines like, “Fuck you, Dad. I’ve got bigger plans,” and the book’s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant the set-up, Rich is most skillful in his dialogue. A jittery Abraham pleads to Isaac, “How about some Rocky Road? Chocolate? I’d get you some strawberry...
...course section there are one or two people that will blithely elaborate their views, completely undeterred by the fact that they haven’t done the reading and have absolutely nothing of interest to say. But everyone at Harvard has at one point or another been in the awkward position of bullshitting about something they haven’t read. Whether it’s at a 9 a.m. section or in passing conversation, we’re reluctant to admit that we just haven’t read it.It’s easy to understand why people...