Word: awkwardness
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...signals (warning: don’t let HUPD see the smoke out the window) 3) Carrier pigeons 4) Telegram stop meet you at J. Harvard statue stop 5) Hobo couriers 6) txt msg (especially convenient for the wireless-less Sanders Theater) 7) Telepathy 8) Semaphore, although this would be awkward in section 9) gmail (you might not want to use your account “sexyslut@gmail.com” to submit your response paper to your Lit TF) 10) Just talk to yourself. You’re the only person who likes you anyway. 11) Whistles—if it?...
...here at Harvard in 2003, has a talent for rendering the indirectness of personal relationships and interactions, but his skills are better reserved for poetry where silence and reticence work in tandem with a writer’s style. In “Utterly Monkey,” these awkward but poignant episodes are overwhelmed by the preposterous plot. For more than just the facts, try Laird’s first volume of poems “To a Fault,” or, better still, try his wife Zadie Smith’s debut novel “White...
...newcomer walked in to the party and took his place among the throng of unsuspecting first-years. After asking the hosts to turn down the music, he then said that he’d need their alcohol. An awkward way to ask for a drink, perhaps. The party’s host, Mark, a current sophomore who asked FM to keep his name private because he does not want to be associated with the event, didn’t think much of the odd visitor at first. Reaching into his desk, Mark says he then took...
Despite Coogan’s obvious acting talent, the self-mockery shtick he presents in “Tristram Shandy” is nothing new. He played the same role—an arrogant actor named Steve Coogan—in a brilliantly awkward exchange with Alfred Molina in Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes...
Before Obama ever cast a vote in theSenate, his picture had been splashed on magazine covers, and pundits were declaring he would be the first black President. That kind of fame can be awkward in the Senate--where nearly every member thinks he or she could be President. But Obama has won over his colleagues by using the Hillary Clinton approach of conspicuously paying respect to their experience. After his term began, he met with more than a dozen Senators, including Clinton and Ted Kennedy, to seek their advice. In weekly breakfast meetings for Illinois residents visiting Washington, Obama...