Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARRY and Sally, like all best friends, try to help each other out of their misery--by fixing the other up with a friend...
...article criticized President Bush, who visited Beijing in February "in the role of an old friend of China," for inviting dissident Fang Lizhi to a banquet attended by senior Chinese leaders...
...found myself at the beginning of a great movement of peoples after the war, a great shaking up of the world, a great shaking up of old cultures and old ideas." In his new novel My Secret History, Paul Theroux offers an affectionate and accurate sketch of his friend and mentor. The character's name is S. Prasad, but the facts and mannerisms are V.S. Naipaul's: "He was an unusual alien: he knew everything about England, he had an Oxford degree, owned his own house, and had published half a shelf of books. He had won five literary prizes...
...would be an injustice to reduce my firstyear to one long drinking story. Some of my bestfirst-year memories are of marathon conversationswith a friend in my entryway who could completethe entire Sunday New York Times crossword puzzlein under an hour and seemed to know the answer toany question I asked-including the mysteries of Ec10...
Although Glenn said they seemed kind of strange, at least Duke and Mike weren't as bad as the roommate one of his friends got, a guy who warned Glenn's friend that he "liked to wear capes...