Word: awkwardness
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...rotten egg lobbed at George W. Bush, feels ridiculous and late--but even when she's being stupid, she sounds like an honest pop star. To quote a line from her ballad "Who'd Have Known," "Even though it's moving forward, there's just the right amount of awkward...
...trend. At work and at school, even on first introductions--at least among the latest inhabitants of The Real World--the hug is gaining ground on the handshake. There are many iterations, including the hip-hop hug (a manly shake-and-squeeze combo), the ass-out hug (an awkward ordeal that precludes genital contact) and, for someone you're really close to, the full frontal (your standard bear hug). The big squeeze has been on the rise at least since 2006, when the Free Hugs campaign exploded worldwide. It got another boost last year, when hikers from Ohio and Pennsylvania...
...jokes about Simone de Beauvoir. The English major who was dating the engineer seemed cheerful. “I think in some ways dating outside the humanities fulfils the purpose of the Core Curriculum,” she told me. I started telling my friends to stop pining for awkward poets and start hanging out in the buildings we usually avoid. Which might or might not explain how I ended up at the Miracle of Science Bar & Grill. I was sitting across from a condensed matter theorist. Instead of gloves, he was wearing socks on his hands. I decided...
...particularly awkward scene of the Valentine’s Day chick flick, “He’s Just Not That Into You,” Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) sits on a sofa with her friend, Alex (Justin Long). Alex, yawning, announces that he is going to retire to bed, and Gigi immediately follows up with, “Is that an invitation?” Such cringe-inducing moments are not rare in the movie; however, unlike the typical chick flick, the film uses these episodes to translate genuine sentiment. Despite the ever-present threat of takeover...
...barista with retrograde amnesia, begins to suspect that the protagonist has been brainwashed to murder his own father. Elsewhere, a cabal of petit bourgeoise candle manufacturers study the cryptic final notations of a reclusive poet-sage in search for the last prophecy of the Knights Templar. Laughter, tears and awkward stimulation await in the vaunted final climax of possibly the most important book of this decade or any other decade. Suspense builds when President Bush makes an appearance at one point, assembling a jigsaw puzzle of the White House. It’s a metaphor.What Happened to Anna K.By Irina...