Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Entertainment, the production company that he started this year with Partner Brian Grazer, 34, went public last week, selling 1.7 million units at $8 each. On the first day of the offering, the price surged to $18.25, and the stock closed out the week at $15.25. As Opie's friend Gomer Pyle might say, "Gawlee...
...heat generated by both television lights and the querulous exchanges between wrought-up Senators and bristling Administration spokesmen. Precise and undramatic, Lugar, 54, comes across more like a fusty academic than a hands-on vote getter. He is regarded as thoughtful -- as opposed to purely brainy -- by friend and foe alike, a quality that stands out among legislators given to impulse. Always dressed in shades of dark gray and blue ("Once I owned a green suit," he says, as if surprised by the recollection), he seems somehow smaller than his 5 ft. 10 in., 160 lbs. Yet his intellectual weight...
...American Friend...
...sitting next to us asked us where we came from and what we were studying. I told him "History" (You just can't say "Hist. and Lit., France and America" outside of Harvard) and Tom said "Political science." At this, our friend looked around nervously and then said in a low voice, "If I were you, I would not say to people here `political science'...our government...it is considered, how do you say, subversive." Tom kept asking, "I don't understand. Why?" But the man was visibly flustered and just turned to me, saying, "You understand...
Their marriage seems idyllic. Rachel is happy being a housewife and even more happy being a mother, and Mark remains in love with her. The two renovate a house together, perhaps the ultimate demonstration of yuppie love, and throw dinner parties for their friends. Of course such banal eighties-style romance could not last forever, especially with a man who (pre-maritally) would bring his girlfriends to his best friend's house for lunch...and leave them there. Rachel is about eight months pregnant with their second child when she discovers Mark is having an affair...