Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play’s greater themes will strike a chord of recognition in all audience members. And the Lucie that Holding plays is not so far removed from Harvard after all. “With Lucie, I tap into that bit of me who sometimes feels socially awkward,” Holding says. “In a way, she’s just an awkward adolescent who never quite learns to pick up on social cues.” —Staff writer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...back-up vocals, Stone is left with just her voice and the lyrics to keep our attention, and she can’t quite pull it off. Stone, who co-wrote all of the songs, has some work to do in the writing department. The lyrics range from the awkward (“When I’m all alone in my world / I can feel you touching me”) to the painfully cliché (“If I’m made for you / You’re made for me / It’s too good...
...Live Free or Die,” Kavet and Robin have a history of comedy that actually makes people laugh. They won an Emmy for their work with “Seinfeld,” and in 2005 they penned a how-to book on escaping awkward social interactions called “Saving Face.” But in “Live Free or Die” there is nothing funny about the not-so-ironic depression that follows the audience home after witnessing a full-length film about hopeless, directionless mediocrity and with barely enough character development...
...plot builds to such a point that there is nowhere to go but to a tragic stand-still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective of different characters, and then chooses to leave things in the stylistically most awkward of places: the defensive hands of the bored reader. Constance Barton is haunted by the fear of death through childbirth, pursued by visions of ghosts and demons coming to harm her 4-year-old daughter, Angelica. Blaming her husband’s malignant intentions, she turns to the advice of a neighborhood spiritualist...
Meanwhile Romney, the true prince, plays the insurgent--even though this outsider owns a hunk of Jeb Bush's political operation, various A-list media consultants, a G.O.P. brand name and a gilded Rolodex. Running on the theme of bringing change to Washington is a little awkward when his party has been running it for most of the past seven years. But Romney made his name and fortune as a turnaround artist, and his is a party badly in need of a paint...