Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sifting through my box, I got to three of those owl valentines first. You know, the ones that say, "It'd be a HOOT if you'd be my Valentine!" They're the friendship valentines that card companies need to make so that you don't have to worry about people getting the wrong idea. Turtle valentines are pretty good for that, too, as I recall...
Without Bryon providing a strong focal point, the central relationship between the two poets fails to engage the audience. The sexual tension between the two men suggested by the text is missing, as is a sense of development in their friendship, so that the older poet seems unaffected by Bysshe's drowning at the end. Rigby choses to deliver Byron's final lines over his friend's body in a defeated murmur instead of in the desperate shout called for by the script. Although this interpretation is consistent with his overall performance, it mutes the power of the scene...
...interested to read your article of January 11 concerning the new co-ed social club "Philos." I wonder if its membership realizes that "philos" is, in Greek, a masculine adjective. Might I suggest "philon," which is the neuter of that adjective, or "philotes," which is a feminine noun meaning "friendship." Robert A. Oden...
...born in 1860; they hardly influenced him at all. The men who did were pre- rather than Postimpressionist: Whistler, Manet and, above all, Degas. Sickert had worked for Whistler as a studio assistant in the early 1880s, and Whistler gave him a letter of introduction to Degas. A strong friendship grew up between...
...woods outside Belfast, a black British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything...