Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Bishop's mostly patient efforts, the nuances of it all--the fine line, say, between friendship and deference where Sinatra was concerned--still lie beyond my grasp. Why, I ask, were people so afraid of him? "They weren't afraid of Frank Sinatra. They were afraid of honesty. The one thing that he demanded above all else was honesty." All the same, and even though Bishop had "carte blanche" with Sinatra (as he tells me more than once), "I always dealt with him with humor." That would include up to the last time the two men spoke, about...
...both laughed, but not at the joke--comments like these have become almost instinctive over the years. Mainly, we were just happy to be reliving the good ole' days of our high school friendship. Happy we could mock each other without being offensive. Happy we could still make stupid jokes without feeling stupid ourselves...
...attempt really to regress towards adolescence. Nor was it an attempt to fight the inevitable. Rather, it was our way of telling each other that we still held those "good ole' days" close to our hearts. In our own unique way, we were paying tribute to a friendship by re-enacting its most memorable aspect...
...brother have been marketing "Last Dance" merchandise during the play-offs. But it's really much simpler than that. "Not that he's particularly attached to me, maybe not attached to the system of basketball," explains Jackson. "It's just the whole thing that's grown around us: the friendship, the reliability, the privacy that he has working here." Think about it: for the last year of your storied career, you wouldn't want Donnie the intern stopping by your office every five minutes yelling, "Hey, Mike, there's a guy downstairs who says he knows...
...past 50 years, we have heard what a great friend and ally Pakistan is to the U.S. But when the U.S., on the basis of this friendship, requested that Pakistan not carry out nuclear tests of its own, what did Pakistan do? It humiliated America in front of the whole world and went right ahead with its nukes. This proves that Pakistan is certainly no friend to the U.S. and no ally. BHARATI SINHA ROY Mumbai, India...