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...Wilson's team learned last week. Even as the story leaked, the campaign had ready a four-page memorandum from John Davies explaining that in 1978 Wilson's ex-wife Betty Hosie had hired an undocumented housekeeper from Tijuana named Josefina Klag. The revelation was more than a little awkward-Wilson made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his re-election campaign for Governor. But Davies had to address two legal questions as well: Did the Wilsons "knowingly" hire an illegal immigrant, even though such hiring was not prohibited by law at that time? (No, says Davies: Even though Wilson...
Most of the solutions offered are awkward and clumsy, and therefore not solutions. May I therefore offer one that works...
Within the play, however, the actors--each of whom, except Constance, plays several roles--demonstrate more talent than the script can readily accommodate. Lindsey Richardson's Constance is appropriately timid and awkward, and while her mannerisms tend towards the cute, this is no more than the character demands...
...quarantined, she flees London, only to be chased back because other towns fear the possibility of infection from a Londoner. When she returns to the empty frame of a house that once contained her family, her response is emotionless. Her frequently vacant stare makes Chandler strangely cold, an awkward position for a central female character...
...restaurant (I'm allergic to Italian food) waiting for our Formica booth to be ready, we were surrounded by aged alcoholics and squirming children, all of whom were silently and raptly watching golf on the big screen TV (I hate watching golf). In the midst of our stilted and awkward conversation, I was informed, to my surprise, that we were in fact on a date. "That's a bad date," says Greg C. Clayman '95. He is one of the few who believe dating is alive and well at Harvard. "Sometimes you don't know you're having a date...