Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sabath, clad in black, works the room like a nightclub performer, bringing three of the Ketchum executives up for a mildly embarrassing demonstration. Today's lessons are about tricky social situations, the topic of her forthcoming book, One Minute Manners: Quick Solutions to the Most Awkward Situations You'll Ever Face at Work. How do you introduce two people whose names you can't remember, for example? Simply delegate, she says. Just ask, "Have the two of you met?", and they'll take over. If you need to introduce your boss and your client, whose name do you use first...
...seeing an ex-fling isn’t awkward enough, seeing him naked takes the cake—so I realized at Primal Scream last week, when several former flames streaked by me. The weirdest actually stopped to say hello. Weirder still, I was arm-in-arm with my current boyfriend (who, thankfully, was clothed...
...that situation. It was difficult not to stare—one guy has improved tremendously in physique since we were together. In the case of another, I was glad to have let him go before he exposed his flabby form to Harvard Yard. Then again, the only thing more awkward than running Primal Scream is going as a spectator, so I suppose I deserved exactly what I endured...
...years ago, when he was going rounds in Las Vegas as a Golden Gloves middleweight. "I want to get along ..." he began, but he suddenly seemed at a loss for words. He slumped in his chair, buried his fist in his cheek and tapped his foot for a few awkward seconds. Then Reid let one fly: "He has 24 months left in his presidency. I don't think I'm being mean-spirited by saying [that in] the first six years of his presidency, there's been nothing accomplished except the biggest foreign policy fiasco in the history...
Klein stated that Al Gore "Seems liberated, less awkward than he has ever before appeared in public and eager to propose more inconvenient truths ... I don't know if he's running for President. Probably not. But he should." Millions of Americans agree and are praying that Gore will decide to make himself available to his country one more time. This time though, Gore shouldn't worry about winning or losing; he shouldn't worry about raising money. He can remain liberated by making his campaign all about truth--not all about winning. Imagine Gore uncensored, speaking his heart...