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Word: boyfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school this year, reads on while sipping the last few drops of her shot of tequila. Janet concedes that studying in this atmosphere is a bit distracting, but "I can do it and I want to, anyway." If she didn't seize the opportunity to be with her boyfriend at these late hours, she says, she would never see him. Between the hours of 9 in the morning and dinner, Donald busies himself with his Gov courses, and she with her Psych...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...happened before you departed? Instead of trying to envisage a Matthews' quad with seven people, I am imagining my room stripped of familiar belongings. I'm not ready to worry about extricating myself from an intense relationship with the guy down the hall. I want to know if my boyfriend will write to me. You remember the way in which you established the relationship to combat loneliness. I am just realizing that I might be lonely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prologue | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...arrived in Cleveland that very day to visit my boyfriend, L.S., as a friend calls him, and to confront his parents. To make commections I had had to traverse the entire airport at Detroit, and the airlines had failed to transfer my luggage. Because of the holiday, no one was working and I didn't get my luggage until January 1st was almost over. I had been wearing a new green dress to freak everyone out of their minds but the novelty was beginning to pall and I was yearning for my jeans. That evening we had a sedate family...

Author: By Anne Cherner, | Title: New Year's | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

...with accurate insight and comfortable escape. Norman, the straight mathematician, and Shelley, his spacey girlfriend, are clearly self-parodies. Mike and Cootie, a Rosenkrantz-and-Guildenstern type duo, are careful, conscious performers. But other characters are confused about the interpretation of their lines. When Kathy has problems with her boyfriend, she complains...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: Student Struggles | 11/13/1975 | See Source »

...book become weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: Empty Victories | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

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