Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alessio!" some rowdy Harvard students yelled. "Your boyfriend called, and he says, you suck!" Five minutes later, the fans repeated the chant, adding an adverbial "Well...
...serve up to ten days in jail. Follow-up studies done two years after the program started show that about 80% of the women whose partners went through the program were no longer being battered. "It's made a big difference in our life," says a woman whose boyfriend attended the classes two years ago. "Without that program we would have broken up, because I know he would have beaten me again...
...suffocating marriage with a very eligible doctor and utters Heidi-esque lines like "I made choices based on an idea that doesn't exist anymore." Still, the spirit of the play is more aptly conveyed by Janie's comically maladroit efforts to cook a roast chicken for her boyfriend...
When an emerald ring that Teddy gave to Clara many years before is stolen, Clara holds her Viennese au pair girl responsible for its return. Clara believes that the servant's boyfriend is the thief...
Bellow gives considerable space to descriptions of Clara's ex-husbands who never appear in the story. These characterizations are entertaining but do little to enhance our understanding of the important characters. One of the main characters, the au pair girl's boyfriend, is never introduced in person. This technique could be effective if it were underscoring a theme of anonymity or detachment. But in many cases, it seems as if Bellow either forgets about the characters or just does not care enough to develop them...