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...immortalized by Simon and Garfunkel, Benjamin Braddock’s temptress reminds us that age is just a number. Here’s to her killer calves and to proving my point that 50 is the new 30. 3. Lucille Ball: I love Lucy. Life is a series of awkward events, and you might as well face it with a quirky sense of humor. Lucy shows that you can revel in your inner you and still get a hubby with a foreign accent. 2. Helen Parr (aka Elastigirl; aka Mrs. Incredible): Not just a metaphoric superhero, Helen Parr is also...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Emily G.W. Chau | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...numerous leg-like fingers artistically break dancing on the salon’s tables. These dancing digits show off the colorful nail designs, which shine with an intensity that Kid Sister hopes to one day match. They also supply some necessary choreography in an otherwise static video. Despite an awkward Kanye and a mostly sedentary Kid Sister, the video’s clever finger dance sequences and colorful (literally) staging keeps the viewer’s attention for the full three and a half minutes. Quite the feat for a song about fingernails...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kid Sister | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...october the Republican Presidential candidates spoke before social conservatives, mostly Evangelicals, at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit. The event was awkward for several of the contenders. Mitt Romney's Mormonism does not go over well with all evangelical Christians. Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice. John McCain famously called some Christian conservatives "agents of intolerance" during his 2000 presidential campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Huckabee Trap | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...hyper-conscious adult fighting to bring to them a sense of moral enlightenment. The cover is a picture of a green chalk board, on which two chalk birds and several chalk bees are drawn. Judging by this punny picture, this book should be entertaining, light, and full of those awkward “birds-and-the-bees” moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus? The big, black, water-colored bird doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment...

Author: By Juli Min, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...Robin Williams’s campaign reminds you of Stephen Colbert’s short bid for the presidency. 2. Every time Williams makes a poor attempt at a joke about being single. 3. Every time Robin Williams wears a George Washington-esque wig. 4. If you feel awkward for Williams after Linney breaks the news on Thanksgiving that he never should have won. Worst Thanksgiving ever. 5. Every time Laura Linney says “double b’s, double g’s, double l’s,” which summarizes the machine?...

Author: By Kevin C. Leu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SCREENSHOTS: "Man of the Year" | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

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