Word: flirted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upcoming holiday, a special Valentine's table has been set up by the door. A variety of rather interesting titles vaguely relating to love adorn the display. Perhaps more appropriate for the self-help section, one book entitled How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere advocates that singles should flirt using the "repeat, rephrase, reflect" method of conversation to attract maximum partners...
Uphoff also ably maintains the balance between the literal Elizabethan text and the modern preppie kindergarten created in this production. For example, it makes perfect sense in this version that the two main courtiers, Berowne and Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...
...norm. Our "memories" of the past are of a romantic period in which dating took on a greater social importance. My mother remarks that, when she attended Penn in the mid-1960s, she had dates with three people in a single day. (My mother happened to be an unabashed flirt...
...continues and bursts into fantastic runs up and down the octaves. Wait a minute, you say, as it becomes clear that this is not just another exercise in bloodless bel canto. The voice you are hearing is fresh and juicy. This singer can make the trills tease, the roulades flirt. She tosses off cruelly difficult music as naturally as if she were chatting on the car phone...
Patrick has opted for an easy life working for an addled travel agency in Cambridge, Mass. "I could flirt with the customers, wear tight pants to work, drink at lunch, and swear on the phone," he notes, but adds, with the grace that saves him, that he wouldn't mind making "a tiny fraction of the world a better place." His lover, Arthur, wants them to buy a house together and settle down for good. But Patrick already knows that he would be "stuck in a passionless domestic relationship...