Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never write it down. Things are much better. When I first went to Washington University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never had a woman in the administrators' loop. When I first began to meet with them there was this short period of discomfort and then we got our attention focused on the issues and everything was fine...
Reagan's praise was faint, and the body language between the two men, as ever, betrayed discomfort. Nevertheless, Bush's advisers felt he had accomplished a major purpose of his visit: to shore up his crucial and complex relationship with his predecessor and, by extension, with Reagan's loyalists on the Republican right. As Bush jetted last week from Chicago to San Jose to Miami, pointing with pride to the accomplishments of his first 100 days, he and his aides stressed their "continuity" with Reagan and felt obliged to deny the obvious: embedded in their accomplishments are subtle but distinct...
Another possible reason for the audience's discomfort may have been the theater space itself. The Kronauer Space, essentially a glorified basement space in Adams House, is not exactly what one would call a room with a view. The stage is set in one corner of the basement, and director Jackie Sloan makes no attempt to hide the humble surroundings. Decorated with rummage sale-like furniture, the set does not appear different from any of the other rooms in the Adams basement...
...courtly in its procedures and respectful of its leaders. But last week the Bundestag convened in an unaccustomed turmoil of accusation and recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered German is there in the cartoons and the editorials...
...Mather TV Room is not meant to seat the 75 to 100 people allowed into each performance. The overcrowded house significantly detracts from the viewing experience, particularly when half your view of the stage is obscured by other audience members. Packing in an audience to the point of cramped discomfort for such an intimate play is an oversight on the part of the producers and an insult to the members of the cast, who merit the public's support. But if you don't mind craning your neck to catch the one-liners of Simon's hit-and-miss script...