Word: boyfriend
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...banalities. And he knows that anyone familiar with his work probably wouldn't believe him, anyway. After all, he's the guy who wrote The Distance From Here, in which a teenager drowns a baby in a penguin pool; The Shape of Things, in which a student manipulates her boyfriend into changing his appearance and ditching his friends for a college art project; and The Mercy Seat, in which a man uses the 9/11 attacks as a cover to disappear with his mistress. LaBute refuses to judge any of his characters. He likes nothing better than to test how fine...
...them), the book reads as both a slice of life story and comic send-up. The story takes place over two hot summer days when Ingrid, a young woman whose mind is "wired for self-destruct," according to her girlfriend, runs into Mark, her cheating ex-boyfriend. Mark invites her to hang out with his friends the following evening, and Ingrid, who has a boyfriend, hedges at first but finds herself considering it. Meanwhile, Mark, who made up the story of meeting friends out of thin air, has to get at least one person to accompany him on his stealth...
...CHARGED. MAZAL AMAR, 58, and MEIR AMAR, 31, the wife and son of Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of two leaders of the state religious establishment; with abducting the Rabbi's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend; in Jerusalem. Meir has admitted to kidnapping the teenager at knifepoint and holding him overnight in an Arab village and later at the Rabbi's home, where he was allegedly beaten. But police suspect that it was done at the behest of his mother?something the family denies?who allegedly disapproved of the relationship. The Rabbi has not been implicated...
Talking T: YOU WERE NEVER MY BOYFRIEND...
...know. Though the occasional public lip-locking is okay, it is not okay for him to simply tout his “prize,” as if to say, “Hey!!! I’m making out with someone!!!” If this describes your boyfriend, talk to him. Say, perhaps, “Tarzan, I’m not swinging for open-air smooching...