Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half an hour before the broadcast, a sixsome of us duly departed for the Chicago Sports Bar and Grille. Part of the master plan was already ruined as freshman Alexis Boyle had received a message at the hotel's front desk from boyfriend (and Harvard forward) Marco Ferrari about the game's outcome earlier in the evening. But she didn't tell anyone, and although I subconsciously tried my darndest to figure out what it was she knew, I couldn't penetrate her chronically happy countenance...
...Turkey: Last January, Zeynep Atici allegedly plied boyfriend Abdullah Kemal Konak with drink, tied him up and cut off his penis with a bread knife after he said he was leaving her for another woman; it is uncertain whether his reattached penis will recover sexual function...
...apparent replacement by a frightening network of mutual but very unequal dependence and exchange. The title phrase "Pirate Prude" appears in two songs. It turns out, I think, to mean that the body as an object with use-value (to be sold, or taken, by a "pirate" boyfriend; to be "pirated," appropriated for gain, by the body's owner) and the body as a source of fear (to a "prude") are intimately related, and that neither point of view can be got rid of. Maybe the "pirate" and the "prude" are the only options we have--maybe you either...
...where it's called "Babyface"--has retained all the staticky "--has retained all the staticky guitar rawness it requires, while preserving (the engineer deserves a medal) the clarity of every serious, fragile syllable. Helium can be oblique and witty, but here the directness is what shocks, from the boyfriend-girlfriend indictments of the verses ("He'll pay for anything, you're his money") to the anything, you're his money") to the chorus, which describes the self-image of just about everyone I know: "It's been a long time since you saw your body/ It looks like someone, yeah...
...boundaries of the relationship are clearly set. For them, it's your everyday TF-student relation, with a lot of beer on the side. "Epsilon", another sophomore, says he has become very good friends with his tutorial leader, to the point that "she talks to me about her boyfriend and I talk to her about my relationship." Although this doesn't make either one of them uncomfortable, since it is an out-of-classroom relationship in addition to the teacher-student one, he admits that "it is sort of weird that no one in the class knows that...