Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't only his marriage that was in trouble. Foster was already brooding about his relationship with Hillary, which was turning out to be much different from the close friendship they'd enjoyed at the Rose firm. The new dynamic had been made painfully clear to Foster in an incident that seemed trivial on the surface. Soon after arriving in Washington, Hillary had complained to Foster about the Secret Service agents. They were stationed inside the family living quarters on the second floor of the White House, within earshot of just about everything that happened. They were career officers...
...scurry like lemmings to find blocking groups, some important issues surface, not the least of which is friendship. Most of us didn't come to Harvard with a built-in set of friends. We had to start over. September 9 was the day I realized how long I've known most of my friends from home, and how long it took to build those friendships...
...TAXING FRIENDSHIP...
...OFTEN IS FILMMAKING A matter of life and death? It was just that for Massimo Troisi, star of The Postman (Il Postino). Enfeebled by a heart condition, the Italian actor was able to work only an hour or two a day on his dream movie, whose story imagined a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and a simple postman. Two cardiologists and an oxygen tent stood by on the set for Troisi, 41, who couldn't walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than...
...small, TV-size movie plays well to older, stay-at-home Academy voters; that in a subpar year for Hollywood films, the members will look abroad; and that emotional clout always helps sell a picture. Il Postino takes as its subject the volatile nature of a strong, unequal friendship. The movie makes poignant and palpable that most discreet of passions: devotion...