Word: courtship
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...surrender. Tell your friends: the grumpy old man finally gets it. After years of arguing and analyzing, I now officially concede that movie comedy is meant to be always and only about men behaving at an IQ and/or age level far below expectations; that movie courtship is a process of stumbling into sex, not the suave negotiation of seduction; and that, after decades when Hollywood offered the likes of Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Steve McQueen were the emblems of masculinity, it now proposes the mentally and emotionally challenged oaf as dreamboat. What woman could look at Ferrell in this...
...trick is figuring out what Catholics want. For decades, they were part of the New Deal coalition and were largely concerned with economics and foreign policy. More recently, Republicans have cut into that advantage by appealing to Catholics on social issues, a courtship that culminated in George W. Bush's victory in 2004. The TIME poll confirmed that a majority of Catholics (59%) can be broadly defined as pro-life (opposing abortion except to protect a woman's life or health or in cases of rape or incest). But these pro-life Catholics are actually split into two voting camps...
...wedding on Dec. 20 at St. Paul Catholic Church and in the Dunster dining hall. The wedding procession down DeWolfe Street will be a familiar one. Vittori, an economics concentrator in Dunster, and Hetrick, an anthropology and chemistry concentrator in Mather, ate most of their meals during their undergraduate courtship in the dark wood dining hall where their reception will be held. Hetrick converted to Catholicism at St. Paul’s, and Vittori, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Association, was active in the church. They will have a traditional, Christmas-themed wedding, though Vittori?...
...romance for the ages: an heiress to the Carnegie fortune and daughter of a yachtsman, socialite Polly Lauder fell in love with boxer Gene Tunney, a heavyweight champion with a taste for classical literature. After a secret courtship, they made national headlines on their engagement in 1928. The couple was married for 50 years, until Gene's death in 1978. Polly Lauder Tunney...
...Senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real work gets done. To succeed is to succumb, often to the courtship of big-ticket donors...