Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend about an affair, would keep it secret. And if the good friend asked me to lie under oath about it, I would say no and insist we drop the subject. I would not press a Record button for three months' worth of intimate confidences, all the while feigning friendship...
...returned the favor by joining them for most of Siouxsie's sets. And while Siouxsie spent her solos in the spotlight, Cale seemed equally comfortable with the dusk in which he performed his. Playing and singing together, the two musicians showed that a mutually beneficial union is possible through friendship and respect...
...between a President and his bodyguard can get awkward when professionalism conflicts with familiarity. Gerald Ford used to invite his chief agent up to the family quarters for a drink, but the agent always declined. As a former SAIC says, "You want the President's respect but not his friendship...
...never hear a line of either Henry's or Simon's work. One or both may have great lyrical beauty and ethical depth; one or both may be junk. It matters not, for this is less a tale of literary gamesmanship than a parable of friendship. What would you do for a friend, a lover, the family you feel trapped by? Who deserves your most annihilating sacrifice? What are friends for, anyway...
...interesting to read than the slapstick imitation-Tarantino Mafia violence which bulks up Dog Days. Reilly and Evan are always denying that they are attracted to each other and make all sorts of homophobic jokes, to no avail--even their girlfriends insist that there is something deeper to their friendship. Yet Lyons chose to take the more mundane path: instead of exploring the fine line between friendship and love between the two, he browbeats his readers with just another book about just another average guy getting entangled with in the Mafia's business...