Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continuum rather than two mutually exclusive camps, where one places one-self on the spectrum can still be largely a product of personal experience. Harvard individualists are likely to internalize happiness and successes and reduce the importance of structure, "Since I made Phi Beta Kappa/got into the Advocate/have a boyfriend, you could have also if you wanted to," whereas structuralists tend to externalize unhappiness or failure and ignore the role of individual initiative, "Since I didn't get summa on my thesis/make it into the Spee/become a chick magnet, it is because thesis readers/final clubs/girls at Harvard are unfair/elitist/ugly...
...finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...
...women there, Jessica Keith, 24, told me she turned down her boyfriend's offer to buy her a $500 premiere ticket. "When you get older, there aren't as many big events to look forward to," she says. "Birthdays aren't that big. Christmas isn't that big. This is a big cultural thing...
Perhaps recapturing the excitement of youthful giddy anticipation was worth wading through the hype, I thought. But then Jessica told me about her previous boyfriend, a fellow Star Wars freak. "The relationship ended because he spent all his money on Star Wars toys and never wanted to go out," she said. Sometimes it's best to evolve...
...music box, where the music is strung together with sturdy strumming, straightforward rhythm-bones and innocent voices on the cusp of corruption. She can hear little else than the tinkling and moaning of a hollow synthesizer that gets so lonely it would be frightening to anyone else. Her boyfriend calls to her, "Baby!" but she is deaf to his song. She is in a strange, sad world of impressions where the eyelids beat to a psychedelic beat. No one wants her to stop...