Word: awkwardnesses
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...necessary,” said Pasquariello, a joint Business School and Kennedy School student. “It’s pretty simple too, so the management will often agree.” Pasquariello was later crowned the crowd favorite. Things got even more “awesome and awkward,” as organizer Bill W. Heil put it, later in the evening, when the final contestant, John W. Coleman, spoke intimately with the small group of judges—his potential investors. “We can hang out like a warm shower...
...pretty sure the HSM cat is out of its glittery bag.So why do I like it? Well, for starters I like how uncool it is here. Imagine if iPod boy had run into his friend while listening to HSM. The ensuing conversation would be hilariously awkward! I’ve had it many times. And Disney is so uncool, it becomes cool. This is a thing I like to tell myself.As for the angsty thing—I’ve got plenty of my own inner angst. My list of pet peeves, as you could see, is pretty extensive...
...evening, say organizers at The School of Life in London, is designed to help guests open their minds "to be tickled, exercised and expanded." But for struggling actress Katie Mooney, 24, the process proves more awkward than enlightening. "It feels like a mixture between speed-dating and therapy," she says. Indeed, Mooney is seated opposite a clinical psychologist who, just five minutes into the first course, has already shared his fear that his patients desire him sexually and his deep resentment toward his parents for sending him to boarding school. "I didn't even know his last name," Mooney says...
Obama's support could further jolt some life into next month's annual U.N. summit on climate change in Poznan, Poland. The summit is a victim of awkward timing - Obama has been elected, but representatives from President George W. Bush's Administration will still be in charge - thus the real focus will be on next year's summit, in Copenhagen, when Obama will hold the reins and the world will face its self-imposed deadline to pass a new Kyoto Protocol. Green activists hope that Obama's plans for a national carbon cap will help break the logjam that...
...Sunday, MTV’s Total Request Live issued its swan song, and I wasn’t listening. Dubbed TRL by its hordes of devotees—among whose ranks I used to count myself—the show marked a generation of awkward and not-so-awkward teenagers who tuned in for a decade to watch, fanatically, their favorite “celebs” battle it out for the top spot on the show’s daily music video countdown...