Word: girls
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...girl in short shorts and Doc Martens walked up to us on Church Street and drawled a question slow as corn syrup...
This point was driven home to me during my sophomore year at Harvard, when a boy broke up with me by giving me a book of Jonathan Franzen essays called “How to be Alone.” Leaving aside the stereotypically Harvard gesture of giving a girl a book to let her down gently, there was something deeply offensive at the time about the assumption that I would be so devastated about our break-up that I would need to learn how to be alone. Yet despite the irrelevance of essays on dying fathers and big tobacco...
...quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done up by the grieving mother and some of her friends in an art class. The photo showed the dead girl wearing stylish black glasses and an impish smile. "Sophisticated," the magazine's title read, just above the photo. Liu's vigil, and those of the other parents present, turned what is supposed to be a national holiday of celebration and games for kids into one of mournful - and pointed - remembrance...
...anagrams, in order: get married, cold feet, no-show, ceremony, honeymoon, Mexican resort, disconsolate, sympathetic, problems, bedroom, unfaithful, leave him, adopted a girl, give birth, is pregnant, sexually, well-endowed, falling out, stay single, reconcile, New Year's Eve, happily, bond again, cosmopolitans...
Faulks is a graceful writer with a bracing cold streak and a sharp eye for period detail (Bond's girl of the moment drives a white Sunbeam Alpine). But by now, Bond is so bound by convention--there must be exotic settings (Paris, Persia, Russia) and vehicles (the unstoppable Ekranoplan!), and the villain has to have an exotic handicap (a weird, deformed monkey hand)--that it's all poor James can do to wriggle convincingly under all that baggage. And escape, my dear 007, is quite impossible...