Word: boyfriend
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...humiliating him. ("Can we go straight to laughing about this?" he asks after one abashing incident. That's his cure for a broken heart: instant irony.) Tris is pretty catty to Norah as well. That's why Norah sidles up to Nick, at random, asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes and gives him a kiss it'll be hard to shake...
...someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that would be Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings), whose top-girl hauteur masks her discontent with every punk-star wannabe who wants a recording contract with her music-producer father. She doesn't need leeches; she wants a boyfriend. Just not the quiet, doomed bassist in a queercore band...
...friend from Shanghai leaned over to share her shameful secret: "I watched some of the Olympics," she said, in a tone of voice implying that this was a transgression akin to sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend or - even worse in this fashion-crazed city - toting an obvious knock-off handbag. For months, many citizens of China's most populous city gritted their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony...
...some, that hope has come too late. A week after Conteh's death, her relatives gathered to name her baby girl after the dead mother. Weeping, Conteh's parents and her boyfriend hugged and kissed the infant, a bittersweet reminder of their loss. They are not alone. In the time it has taken to read this story, about 20 more women have died in childbirth...
...hippies and jam bands, masses of acid-trippers and topless peace lovers. I waited patiently until I too had the opportunity to make the pilgrimage to what I had hoped might be one of the few true lovefests still in existence. The chance presented itself this summer. My boyfriend and I packed into the only vehicle available: a white Chevy Suburban, hulking and armed with enough gasoline to cause the next tragic oil spill. Okay, we thought, we would be the most eco-unfriendly people there and would probably make very little friends with our huge SUV, but we would...