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Schmidt loves his daughter and admires his future son-in-law, but he likes neither. He sees Charlotte as "a smug overworked yuppie" and Riker as an uncultured legal drone. Riker is also a Jew, which puts Schmidt in the awkward position of being branded a bigot because he does not enthusiastically welcome him into his family. To complicate the issue, Schmidt must vigorously fend off Riker's mother, an overzealous psychiatrist who treats him as if he were a repressed Wasp. What she does not know is that Schmidt is having a hell of a good time...
...Fresh from his tepid handshake with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Clinton for help in forging a peace with Syria during an hour-long Oval Office meeting Monday afternoon, telling reporters "the United States fully understands our position." That position is awkward. As the new player at the peace table, Netanyahu is finding it difficult to carve himself a different road to peace with his neighbors. He is determined to live up to his campaign vow to give paramount priority to Israeli security, while also carrying forward his predecessor's unfinished negotiations...
...brazen idea, an affront to the Administration's posture of fiscal rectitude. In fact, the White House was planning to ridicule Dole for using gimmicks to pay for his plan; Clinton would lose credibility if he went in for smoke and mirrors of his own. Even more awkward, Aug. 1 turned out to be the day after Clinton told the nation he was signing the welfare-reform bill. To Democratic loyalists, Morris' idea meant that the President would cast a million children into poverty one day and give a tax cut to the rich the next...
...theory. The idea, known as panspermia, is that billions of years ago, the solar system was peppered by biological "seeds," which took root wherever conditions were right. That would explain how life may have arisen at roughly the same time on Earth and on Mars. But it also raises awkward questions about where those seeds came from and what, or who, sent them flying through space...
...also implicit in the creation of this curious menage. She has a capacity that far more experienced--or should one say more wearily knowing?--filmmakers lack: she trusts her tale, whatever its improbabilities; she also trusts her characters to find their way, in their own sweet time, to such awkward accommodations as they eventually make; and, most important of all, she trusts us, the audience, to take them to heart without a lot of special pleading or heavy-handed emotional cuing...