Word: awkwardly
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...fall of 1966, Harvard seemed to be pretty much what I'd expected from the admissions materials: there were lectures from faculty luminaries like John King Fairbank and George Wald, long evenings in Lamont, coats and ties at meals in the Freshman Union, somewhat stilted sherry receptions, awkward mixers and even some lazy afternoons rowing on the Charles...
...with Macintosh but in some areas even outshines it. For example, to select a command from one of the Mac's "pull-down" menus requires users to press the mouse button, hold it down while dragging the cursor over the command and then release the button. It is an awkward sequence that new users find difficult to master and that can put a strain on the wrist. In Windows 95, the menus pop open with just one click and stay open until a second click launches a command...
...video-game market is in the midst of one of those awkward transitions it endures every five years or so, as the old game-playing systems get banished to the closet and new, more powerful ones take their place on the family TV. What is supposed to happen this year, according to the industry's timetable, is that the so-called 16-bit machines (like Sega's Genesis and Nintendo's Super NES) will be phased out in favor of machines that crunch data 32 or 64 bits at a time...
...AWKWARD TURNER EVENTS...
...love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel is redeemed by Harrison's chilling prose about women and men trapped in societal malignancy...