Word: juliet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chanteys and buried treasure -- the thrilling unknown. Then she spies hunky, lonely Prince Eric, and it's impossible love at first sight. For Eric, when he is saved by the mermaid and nursed by her caressing song, it's love at first sound. A cross-species Romeo and Juliet: boy meets gill...
Jennifer L. Greenstein, Juliet E. Headrick, Suzanne Petren Moritz, Philip M. Rubin and Dhananjai Shivakumar contributed to the reporting of this article...
...Cohn '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Tara A. Nayak '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Melanie R. Williams '91 Features Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editor: Hector I. Osorio '89-90 Copy Editor: Juliet E. Headrick...
Technology, too, serves to make our liaisons more dangerous. Rob Lowe was apparently uncovered by a videotape, common-law suitors are often betrayed by photographs, and, in response to all this, more and more people choose to interface, date or even make love over the phone. If a modern Juliet were to try to reach her lover before feigning her own death, she might well hear, "Hi! This is Romeo! Nobody's here right...
...this is not to suggest that caution is a bad thing: Romeo and Juliet died prematurely, after all. Romance has always included some degree of calculation. Indeed, the very notion of true love, according to many scholars, is a relatively recent invention; in most places, in most times, marriage has been a practical arrangement. Those who scoff at matrimonial ads in Indian papers may have few qualms about placing SWM notices in their local tabloids; a blind date is only an arranged marriage in potentia. If disease and collision liability have put a crimp in promiscuity, that...