Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight developed when a drunk senior made advances to a freshman girl by repeatedly asking her for a date. The girl contacted her boyfriend, a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, who entered Baker House with a friend. When a third fraternity member who had a previous disagreement with the Baker resident arrived, a fight broke...
...swing the rent on her funky loft apartment only by sharing it with two gay male roommates, sprawls and stares, momentarily graceless in grief. One of them, who was also her collaborator, has died in a boating accident; the other, whose solace she craves, is not at home. Her boyfriend shows up, and she tries to send him away. Their sexual and romantic intimacy cannot begin to compare with the bond she felt toward the dead man who shared her work. She has never had -- is not sure she has ever wanted -- what other people call a personal life...
...skirmish between knockabout farce and knockdown violence. Yet Playwright Lanford Wilson manages to integrate well-crafted gags, mostly for the surviving gay roommate (Lou Liberatore). He describes his friend's gaudy casket as looking "like a giant Spode soup tureen." He says to the choreographer (Joan Allen) about her boyfriend (Jonathan Hogan), "I don't know why you don't just marry him and . . . buy things." In mock self-pity he demands, "Have you ever been to a gay New Year's Eve party? The suicide rate is higher than all of Scandinavia put together...
...just broken up with my high school boyfriend over the phone--it's an old story. My first thoughts were to consume--shut out the pain with a cigarette, a bar of chocolate, or a hot mug of coffee. I wanted to be reminded of home, of friends, family, security...
Sitting there I realized how ridiculous it was to wallow in self-pity, thinking my life must be over because I'd broken up with my high school boyfriend...