Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...townhouse in a complex dotted with speedbumps. Turned out sniper wasn't quiet the word. A young man, upset that his girl was seeing another man, roared up to the door in his snub-nosed car, pulled out a rifle, and threatened to blow away not only the new boyfriend but the old girlfriend as well...
Between the Knapps and their children is a middle generation of bemused souls. Cynthia Forrest teaches summer school and has the unenviable task of getting Mary and other Peter Frampton fans to pay a little attention to Jane Austen. Cynthia's boyfriend, Peter Spangle, is in Spain dribbling away the last of a small inheritance. He left before reversing the fan in the kitchen window; the hot air blows...
...Southern women is Southern men. Maybe so. But Daniell's argument is not nearly as compelling as the relatives and acquaintances she uses for illustration: the cousin who took to bed for 20 years after her father forbade her to marry the man she loved, the car-crazy boyfriend whose kisses tasted of brake fluid, the professor who had an arrowed heart containing the legend "Mother" tattooed on his groin...
...less timeless than her protégée. In half a century, Nancy has aged only two years, to 18, and done little more than change hair styles and add slacks and shorts to her swing-era sweater sets and pleated skirts. Despite a 50-year romance, Boyfriend Ned Nickerson is still allowed no more than a chaste kiss. That's because of another relationship equally uncharacteristic of modern times, alas. "I call her my fictional daughter," says Mrs. Adams. "And my fictional daughter always does and says what I tell...
That same week, top hurdler Karen Gray stumbled while leaving practice and also sprained her ankle. Then high-jumper Hanna Cox, vacationing in Florida, decided to take up wrestling with her sister's boyfriend, Hunt said. Her grappling career shortlived, she wound up with a crushed sternum and some broken ribs...