Word: embarrassed
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...Sherlock Holmes, which features Robert Downey Jr.'s six-pack in a starring role and Jude Law as his partner more in bromance than crime solving. Ritchie's Holmes is smart, to be sure, as he's been in dozens of movies and television series, but his legendary embarrassment of mental riches isn't going to embarrass anyone. In this movie, his ability to throw a right hook or dodge a flying fist matters just as much as his brain. Our new Holmes fights bare-chested in the street, and when he gets into trouble, he talks through his moves...
...There,” “How to Play Dirty (and Like It!),” and, of course, “5,367 new sex positions.” These features can provide some amusing Friday night material over which to giggle with your girlfriends or embarrass your boy/guy friends. But they also serve as a reminder of what our culture still apparently believes is a woman’s place, if not in society, then at least in the bedroom—on the bottom...
...mention this disaster not to embarrass the fun czar but rather to highlight the overarching problem with the czarist regime that has been at the heart of every social programming nightmare for the past five years: First-year Harvard graduates are generally ill-equipped to manage the minutiae surrounding oversight of an entire campus’s large-scale social events. From navigating thorny contracts to responsibly allocating a six-figure budget at a notoriously decentralized University, the position’s responsibilities are complex and demanding enough to challenge even a veteran professional event planner...
...every community promotes certain behaviors and discourages others. This campus, for instance, encourages efficiency. To embarrass students over their wastefulness, the Resource Efficiency Program piled trash eight feet high in front of the Science Center last November. This campus also urges “safe sex.” Last Halloween, Peer Contraceptive Counselors gave freshmen condoms and lubricant in festive goodie bags with the slogan, “Sex doesn’t have to be scary...
George L. Walsh, former captain of the Harvard University Police Department, possessed an alarming capacity for generosity—sometimes even at the expense of his children’s comfort. On his morning commutes to Harvard, Walsh would periodically embarrass his children by stopping his car to offer rides to strangers standing along Mt. Auburn St.—he knew bus stops were especially fertile places to find people. “Dad, what are you doing?” daughter Barbara J. Walsh remembers asking her father on those morning trips. The genial former police captain...