Word: awkwardness
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...world saw two realities in Baghdad last week. Saddam Hussein televised his on Friday, as Iraqi TV showed him rising from the underground to take a walkabout in two Baghdad neighborhoods. He seemed awkward but animated, surrounded by adoring citizens, even kissing a baby. As with every Saddam sighting, this one--plus a videotaped speech broadcast earlier that day in which he urged citizens to rise up against the Americans--triggered endless speculation about body doubles and other cinematic tricks. But intelligence analysts in the U.S. and elsewhere mostly concurred that this was truly Saddam. For supporters at home...
...next 30 years alone. According to the Census Bureau, approximately 13% of currently divorced 50-year-old men and 8% of currently divorced 50-year-old women can be expected to remarry at some point. Witnessing a parent's remarriage--though such unions are increasingly common--can feel awkward, even unnatural, to grownup kids. "As a child, you don't understand the courting years of your parent's life," says Amanda Dow, 31, whose father Wayne Gilstrap started dating two months after her mother died in 1997. In their small town, Pickens, S.C., his romance with Cathy, a divorce locals...
...Kaplans partially accomplish this objective by scheduling classes at awkward times. Those for younger children meet weekdays around 5:00 p.m., after a long school...
...while, things just become weird. Look at this rationally: you can’t simply go to L’Espalier on a second date. No matter how ga-ga you are about someone, it just ruins everything to seem so damn serious so soon. Try imagining a more awkward situation than going from a couple of friendly lattes to a dinner that has a dress code. If you were a girl, what would you think? Exactly. This guy I don’t know from a can of paint expects une peu d’action...
Kenyon: From 4-1 it goes to like 5-4. I thought we still had it in the bag, but there was no countering the blistering cross-court shots by our president nor the awkward game-winners from Wasserstein. They had momentum on their side too, something Ben ML and I had lost...