Word: friendshipment
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...year-old "screwball sister." (Odd, since J.J. is at least twice as old; why couldn't she have been made his daughter?) She's kooky and vulnerable, always looking as if she's just been slapped or thinks she's about to be. When she questions Sidney's "friendship" with J.J. - "Who could love a man who makes you jump through burning hoops like a trained poodle?" - she might be speaking to herself. And her boyfriend is just too square to compute as a 50s jazz musician. (What's he got that she wants? Sidney's answer: "Integrity. Acute. Like...
...friendship with Spike was to walk on eggshells. He once sent me a furious letter because I had called him a genius. Van Gogh, he maintained, was a genius. He, Spike, was not! He was wrong. The best definition of genius was given me by a philosopher: "A genius is one who, however slightly, alters our perception of reality." The father of the Goons fits that bill alright. Modern comedy owes an enormous debt to that fierce, inventive mania...
...most compelling aspects of By the Lake is the ripening of the friendship between two couples—Jamesie and Mary and Ruttledge and Kate—through shared traditions. Their relationship passes imperceptibly over time from acquaintanceship to friendship to the deepest affection. Their daily rapport is pleasant as the couples take turns calling on each other, sharing meals and drinks, helping with birthing cows and stacking hay. Their interactions are refreshingly free of gender-war stereotypes; the women do not gather to commiserate, the men do not spend their time talking about sports or politics. With their honesty...
...make a sandwich in 1953. "Cooking is the newest and coolest hobby for tweens [ages 8 to 12]," says Debra Dorfman, president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlop, a division of Penguin Putnam, which in May is launching a series called Dish. Each book will include a story about friendship and a recipe card. Another book, PB&J USA (Small Potatoes Press), puts a spin on that traditional favorite with recipes from real folk as well as celebrities...
Coincidentally, the two girls would meet repeatedly over the next week on tours at different colleges and strike up a friendship. It was far from a coincidence, however, that they ended up at Harvard...