Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OCCUPATION:] Actress [MARRIAGES:] 7 [SHORTEST:] less than a year [LONGEST:] 11 years [ODDEST MATE:] Mark Harris, 32 years her junior, after a three-week courtship...
...entertain the young widow Sue Lee (Jewel, the singer). They are idiot savants at making war--without flair or even instinct but with an awful proficiency. At making love they are just idiots. They haven't had the example of the movies or even mush literature to teach them courtship. They hide their feelings as clumsily as they express them. "So, do you want to marry me?" asks Sue. Jake replies, "No, not too bad." And for a moment we see the sweet awkwardness Lee induced in Sense and Sensibility...
...meal set the stage for a number of performers, who ranged from the Korean Drum Troupe's percussionists to the Asian-American Dance Troupe. HPF dancers presented a courtship dance, eliciting catcalls from the crowd...
During the 17 years--17 years--that this situation continues, Lin forms a strong attachment to Manna Wu, a young nurse at his base hospital. That is, she was young when she and Lin first met, but Manna has grown understandably restive during a long courtship that never gets beyond some furtive hand holding. (Army rules forbid unmarried couples from even walking together outside the compound walls.) She keeps urging Lin to divorce his wife, and every year he goes back to his village and tries to do so. And every year Shuyu agrees to his request but then changes...
Could this pass for a date in Webster Groves? "No," says Sally. "It's just hanging out." When she and Peter do venture out, it's usually in a crowd. This baffles parents whose lessons in courtship were one-on-one. "If you have a date, you go meet him with everybody else," says parent Kay Johnson. "They never go out to the movies, but that's so much fun and I just don't get it." For the students, grabbing dinner and a movie as a first date is unusual. "If a guy asked me out to dinner," says...