Word: boyness
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...Knocked Up is, essentially, a rich-girl-poor-boy romantic comedy, of the kind Hollywood manufactured by the hundreds in its glamorous, sexually restrictive prime. Back then, an unmarried woman with a baby would usually be the victim of mistaken identity. Ginger Rogers, say, in the 1939 Bachelor Mother: she notices an abandoned infant outside an orphanage, gathers the child up and is thought to be its mother; comic discomfort ensues. On rare occasions, and with back-breaking dexterity, a gifted writer could work the sex act into a movie's plot. Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek...
...never clear to what extent Harvard would ever become “home” for me. I’m a California boy answering to a Jewish mother. She would kindly ask Emily Dickinson to reconsider her refrain, “Where thou art, that is home.” No, not if your mother is not there. And, even when my mother was in Cambridge, she would note that not everybody else was. That’s not “home.” Besides, “home” should be sunnier...
...quoted her correctly but she had changed her mind to reflect the sentiments of her constituents. I published her statement and still got hammered by bloggers and Swampland commenters for "stalking" Harman into an apology, for not checking her vote in the Congressional Record, for being a "water boy for the right wing" and many other riffs unfit to print...
...boy loves macaroni and cheese. His favorite television show, “Gargoyles,” was recently cancelled, and he still cannot understand...
...boy fiddles with his sheet of looseleaf. He says that in 2007, he will be graduating from Harvard...