Word: awkwardnesses
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...when I first started, we didn’t have a policy around it, and I think we took down profiles too soon before people were done memorializing. That’s when we decided on thirty days. Thirty days seems like enough time to mourn, but is not awkward...
Eggers and Deng worked on What Is the What for three years, recording 100 hours of interviews and visiting Sudan together. What could have been an awkward literary three-legged race became instead a synergistic collaboration. In person there's an obvious and rather touchingly empathic bond between the two: Eggers is the confident, gregarious one, while Deng speaks in quiet, melodious, not-quite-grammatical English. "Dave would listen to me," he says, "and he would write and send me a chapter, and I see him in me. And I ask him sometimes, 'How are you able to put yourself...
After being introduced to his or her horse--an awkward process a lot like meeting a blind date--a Conversant greenhorn leads it around the corral on a rope and conducts a few other maneuvers so they can get used to each other...
Even under the best of circumstances, parties can turn awkward. If the guest list consists of mentally unbalanced people in failing or failed marriages, seething with personal and professional jealousy, and the hostess is determined to open every emotional wound in the room, the result is less awkward and more cataclysmic. That, in a nutshell, is Moira Buffini’s “Dinner,” directed by Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08 and produced by Ben M. Poppel ’09, which is playing at the Loeb Ex through...
...says, and if that isn’t enough, inclement weather so bad any pipedream of escape vanishes into the fog. Now imagine yourself not as a participant, but rather as a passive observer, free to soak in and enjoy all that deliciously dark humor without all the accompanying awkwardness. If all this tickles you pink, you Wes Anderson loving noirist you, then be sure to check out “Dinner,” produced by Ben M. Poppel ’09 and directed by Catherine “Calla” Videt...