Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mick, Keith, Charlie, Bill, and Ron, then, must have gotten a laugh out of the latest attempt to mythologize the Rolling Stones, this one offered by veteran New York Times cliche-hurler Robert Palmer. This picture-book, large-type text, liberally prepared with color and black-and-white photos of the Stones at their decadent best, suffers from the same '60s-envy that makes otherwise rational human beings mythologize the pompous and overblown Jim Morrison or believe that the Grateful Dead were ever more than a bunch of dope fiends who knew a few chord changes...
...gine, so he called her Tigy; he renamed the young woman who became their housemaid and his lover, dubbing her Boule instead of Henrīette. His second wife, whom he now reviles and calls D. rather than Denise, underwent a similar transformation: "In Canada I had gotten D. to give up using makeup." Having made them, he could also break them. Tigy agreed to a divorce stipulation that she must always live within six miles of her son's father. Her alimony, Simenon confides to his children and the world, "was high, about as much in dollars...
...room where her father and Teresa now spend their days. Writes Simenon: "Now that you are here, have come back to your real home, the whole universe has changed in my eyes, and I feel that henceforth I can never think sad thoughts about you. We have finally gotten together again forever...
Rauch: I think they told everyone who auditioned that they'd gotten into the company. But they kept you to read something and told me to go home I hated...
...actor," says Nick Wyse '84, who played Romeo for him on the mainstage. "He's considerate and has a unique way of nurturing what is best in people, and I've never seen him lose his temper with an actor. Actors can be very bitchy people--I've gotten that way myself, it's so easy to get horribly temperamental--and you feel so damn guilty at the end of it because he's so good-hearted...