Word: awkwardness
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...depends on the moment in your life because sometimes you want to do romantic comedies and sometimes you want things tough because you need it for you. Flushed Away was very difficult to create a character only through the voice. You have to be very sincere. Otherwise, it looks awkward...
...Core had long been threatening education like a gang of Carthaginians invading the Republic. Only in 2002 was it finally pronounced inadequate and in need of replacement. Its model of awkward categories and trivial information had led to a crisis of liberal education at the College, and so a review process began. Four years down the road, there is a feeling of déjà vu; we are left where we started and signs of stagnation abound. The President that started the review was ousted, but not before he ousted the Dean that spearheaded the effort. The faculty still...
...rock symphony that pervades it—delightful in its transience, but somehow ultimately hollow. It’s not that the cast can really be blamed for this lack of emotional identifiability; quite on the contrary, Schwartzman and Dunst play incredibly well off each other as a quirky, awkward young couple, and Dunst is, as always, at her best when quietly channeling a vaguely whimsical detachment (it’s a delight to see her once again deliver on that early spark of promise that so distinguished “Interview with the Vampire”). Idling somewhere between...
...students to be a ravenous pack of insomniac news hounds, going to the Drudge Report and frantically clicking “refresh” instead of paying attention in lecture or section. In fact I hope that never happens because, if it did, Harvard would become an even more awkward and unwelcoming place (it stretches the imagination, I know, but I’m reasonably sure it’s possible having heard anecdotes about life...
Then comes October: football season and playoff time, an awkward coexistence. October throws baseball under the rug for days-long stretches, and then FOX throws baseball at your face. Jeanne Zelasko, Kevin Kennedy, and Ken Rosenthal are the network’s on-air talents. Tim McCarver still broadcasts games. And they wonder why ratings are down...