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Word: boyfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also feels that he has performed a moral service to Claire by warning of her boyfriend's dallying with another maiden. Jerome has obviously misread the boy's action, but the morality of the betrayal is left ambiguous. As long as his characters are happy, Rohmer...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Films From Fair to Middling | 5/20/1971 | See Source »

...woman, too, she feels herself a Jew. "Every woman adores a Fascist, the boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you." When her square boyfriend, Buddy Willard, takes down his pants for her benefit she says, "The only thing I could think of was turkey gizzards and I felt depressed." Hating her virginity she gets a man to give her the rack and the screw and hemorrhages violently. Her suicides are novel...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: Book The Bell Jar | 5/4/1971 | See Source »

This was not really a hearing, it was a processing. The prosecution's only evidence, a photograph, showed the girl standing on the steps of University Hall with approximately 100 others while Samuel Williamson, Assistant to Dean May, had tried to get into his office. The girl's boyfriend, who was also her advisor, was arguing the case. He was standing next to her in the photograph the prosecution had presented but no one mentioned this. She was on trial, not him. She had been identified in the photo by her dean, he had not. These unusual circumstances were...

Author: By Sanford Kreisberg, | Title: Inside the CRR | 2/11/1971 | See Source »

...junior high school way, very feminine. She wants to be the first woman fighter-pilot in Vietnam, and after that, to be a General. Yvonne can hit forty-seven out of fifty bulls-eyes from fifty feet with her 22. She talks about running away from home if her boyfriend Peter (who's only 13, but who can hit forty- nine out of fifty bulls-eyes) decides not to marry...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

...FLEETING, final confrontation. It is the end of a heavy autumn day, probably a Thursday, Sybil is walking back from the Coop, carrying all the books for two new courses, a lamp-shade and a box of ginger snaps. Coming towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom she has not seen since the summer. She looks up at him, and he stares at her, stares right through her as if they have never met. They have known each other for years, have exchanged birthday presents, have probably slept together. He looks right through her and doesn't speak...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Paranoia Walking the Streets | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

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