Word: dearest
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...uses. If Pluche must lie fallow for a few weeks, he can at least write a journal about it. Nothing goes to waste: stinginess is not only close to his Gallic heart; it is a law of nature. Besides, writing gives him the chance to expound on his dearest personal fancies...
Motherless Sons. The most savage sequence is a telephone game blundered into by Alan (Peter White), a possible "straight" who was once the host's college roommate. Each player must dial, and then blurt "I love you" to the person he holds dearest. All the players are stoned out of their minds, but not out of their situations. Amid the four-letter confrontations, ugly-and sometimes beautiful-revelations occur, until finally the game's inventor is buried alive in a landslide of truths...
...year Gilpatric was separated from his third wife, Madelin. In the last of the four that were to be auctioned, Jackie explained to Ros, with whom she had traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula several months before, why she had not let him in on her plans to marry Ari. "Dearest Ros -I would have told you before I left -but then everything happened so much more quickly than I'd planned." She closed the letter, written during her honeymoon, saying, "I hope you know all you were and are and will ever be to me -With my love, Jackie...
Julian Mitchell's tricky new novel is about two sensitive, well-educated Englishmen who have widely varying difficulties trying to establish diplomatic relations with their demons and angels. For Charles Humphries, the attempt results in apathy and a self-destructive critical reflex. For Charles' oldest and dearest friend, the process produces The Undiscovered Country itself. The narrator of the novel is not only called Julian Mitchell but bears his real-life social, academic and professional credentials as well...