Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dazzle old flames) but from trying to figure out why, despite fresh batteries and a brand-new adapter, my darned Earthmate GPS isn't talking to the DeLorme AAA Map 'n' Go software that came with it. I'd thought it would be fun and instructive if my friend Karyn and I drove to Dartmouth with no paper maps, only digital ones. I'd picked Map 'n' Go over the competition because it was reasonably priced ($29, or $150 with Earthmate), created fairly simple-looking routes and gave instructions in a computer-generated voice. Had I made a big mistake...
Charlie has issues. His favorite aunt passed away, and his best friend just committed suicide. The girl he loves wants him as a friend; a girl he does not love wants him as a lover. His 18-year-old sister is pregnant. The LSD he took is not sitting well. And he has a math quiz looming. Charlie is the high school freshman protagonist of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, a 29-year-old screenwriter. Published by MTV, it is one of a new generation of novels geared toward teenagers, for whom such subjects are increasingly...
...music sounds like the future and the past. Shivery acoustic guitar on top of spare, steady percussion with a high, husky voice piercing through it all. "In high seas or low seas/ I'm gonna be your friend..." Something about that voice--tremulous, tender, tough--recalls Bob Marley, more than a little bit. But check out the album credits. It's actually Stephen, one of Bob's sons, performing a remake of his father's classic High Tide or Low Tide. The song is one of many bewitching moments on Spirit of Music, the latest CD by Ziggy Marley (another...
...columnist Mike Hlas commented, "That was one bad throw. I know it's not as easy as it looks, but man." Even worse, Veronica Portillo, a girlfriend of one of the players, said, "You looked a little old for the first pitch. They're usually little kids." But her friend Shannon Kroll said, "Your outfit looked good." I should reveal here that I bought Shannon a beer. In fact, I bought a lot of people beer. You can't help it when you're in Iowa. Not so much because everyone is nice but because beer is really cheap...
...Brigid returned to her native Britain to work on the TIME Atlantic edition, and there she truly blossomed, managing the reporters with aplomb while writing on subjects as diverse as Wimbledon and Russian art. But her greatest passion was for friendship, and her greatest pleasure came from conversation with friends, conversation that was full of curiosity about how the world worked and a moral energy about how it should work. The magazine was very lucky to have had her as a journalist all those years; we were far luckier to have had her as a friend...