Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...16th birthday, but her preoccupied parents have forgotten it. Sam (Ringwald) is a sophomore, in strangulated love with a dishy senior (Michael Schoeffling) and shadowed by a crypto-hip freshman called the Geek (Anthony Michael Hall), who, in one of his more winsome moments, asks Sam if he can borrow her underpants. The plot, which will be reprised in Pretty in Pink, is familiar from schlock immemorial, but Hughes' acute ear for teen talk makes it fresh and funny. Listen to Sam and her girlfriend Randy (Liane Curtis) wax ironic on every girl's dream for the day she turns...
...life far exceed those of art. Evelyn Waugh's scapegrace Basil Seal (Black Mischief) is based in part on an aristocrat who might have arrived from the set of early Monty Python. As a houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note...
After Billy ends the affair-- to borrow from Colwin's belatedly accurate title--a marvelous thing happens. "You're my child substitute," Billy had told her lover. Now she gives birth to a son, replacing metaphor with life. Love, no longer a dance, no longer a word game, connects to the rest of life and death and takes on the weight of destiny. As the blood flows, bringing little William into the world, Colwin does not abandon her chosen theme; she movingly fulfills...
Someone claiming to be a former Harvard Summer School student told a dean's office at Denver that he was stranded in Denver and trying to borrow money to get to his home in California, according to Joanna M. Murray, assistant dean of students at the University of Denver...
...tall Black man, going by the name Chris Bailey, who spoke with an English accent appeared at the Denver University Dean of Students' office yesterday morning, asking the dean to help him borrow money he needed to get home, said University of Denver officials...