Word: befriending
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...illegitimate. As if in atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares her isolation, and an intense connection is born of their mutual dependency. Still, Isabelle yearns for more--her boss, sex, an existence outside the lonely one she shares with her child: she "could not bear to stop thinking that her real life would happen somewhere...
...makes her an unpopular figure in certain quarters of Italy during World War II. Pin sleeps in the same room that his sister conducts her business in, and so is precociously knowledgeable about sex. He unhesitatingly shares this with peers, who are fascinated, but find him too different to befriend. Shunned, Pin hangs around a bar and tries to entertain the adults with bawdy songs and neighborhood gossip, rewarded occasionally with wine and cigarettes. Trying to please the bar's denizens, he steals the German soldier's pistol. Thus begins Pin's involvement with the Resistance; after a couple misadventures...
...want an internship. It's as simple as that. And if the networking and schmoozing at these information sessions isn't for you, I'm sorry to welcome you to the world we live in. If eager overachievers can feel comfortable in their endless barrage of pointless questions to befriend a TF, I think my networking for internship is justified...
Notes for a book proposal: How to Bring Down Bill Clinton, by Linda R. Tripp. Part 1: Befriend a young woman who has caught the President's wandering eye. "Tripp advised Lewinsky that she was the kind of woman the President would like, and an affair with the President would be a neat thing to tell her grandkids," according to an FBI report prepared for Ken Starr. Then she discovered that Lewinsky and Clinton were already involved. "Tripp kept hounding Lewinsky until Lewinsky finally said, 'Look, I've already had an affair with him and it's over,'" the report...
...services to the American song didn't end with providing a mechanical rabbit for others to chase. He was an incomparable booster of other writers; it's hard to find a rival that he didn't befriend and, if necessary, help. So it's not altogether unfair that when any song from that era is played, someone almost always asks, "Is that by Gershwin...