Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number-six singles match, Harvard's Kathy Mulvehal and a long-time friend, Mary Gragberg, played each against each other for the first time...
...identify the woman, saying Nancy Reagan referred to her only as "Friend." But Time magazine, which carried excerpts of the book in its new issue, said, "She is Nob Hill Socialite Joan Quigley, sixtyish, a Vassar graduate who has written three books on astrology...
...girl's best friend, diamonds are becoming more dear. De Beers Consolidated Mines, which controls 80% of the diamond market, said last week it will raise prices for rough gemstones by 13.5%. All told, the company's average prices have risen 52% since 1982, bringing the price of a one-carat flawless diamond to more than...
...named Homer (Curt Bois) recalls the days, once upon a time, when a poet had listeners, drawn into a circle; now he has only solitary readers, unable to warm themselves at the long-ago communal campfire of art. A visiting Hollywood actor (Peter Falk) teaches a new friend some primal joys, simple things: "To smoke, have coffee. And if you do it together, it's fantastic!" In a traveling circus, a pretty trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) chafes at the gaudy "chicken wings" she must wear in her act. As she stares in her mirror and considers the pleasures men take...
Roth remembers another incident regarding his controversial paper on cockroach reproductive behavior. A friend saw that the paper was published with the authors' addresses, not the lab's. "He wrote back: 'Dear Lou, What in hell is going on in your basement." Roth laughs and adds that he has attempted to bring his work home, with diastrous results...