Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a week of donning silly outfits and singing the Backstreet Boys' love ballad "I Want it That Way" to gawking crowds in front of the Science Center, the initiates of the Owl final club were ready for their initiation party Saturday night...
...suffering. And what did I know about the troubles of sharecroppers or migrant workers? The lyrics of most blues songs read like a litany of unfaithful lovers, spiteful landlords and unsympathetic bosses. The song titles alone are enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...
...movie is rife with unusually frank love scenes; Jordan says it's no coincidence that his film, produced independently in the U.K., was made wholly outside the Hollywood studio system: "The End of the Affair is one of the most frankly erotic books ever written. I wanted to make my film's [sex scenes] as truly as the book does. When I see sex scenes between Hollywood actors, they're always terribly violent. They're always shoving each other's head against the wall, or ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down...
...Jordan not only directed The End of the Affair, but wrote the adaptation of the Greene novel himself. "[The novel] has a combination of eroticism and spirituality I thought was fascinating" The themes that he explored through this love affair--he pushed the idea of commitment, and the idea of possession, and the idea of affection to such an extreme that you can touch on other areas that love stories don't often touch on. [Greene is] a great novelist of character, and he's kind of pitiless-he observes them at their worst and their best...
...vice president is going to capitalize on the differences between Bradley's record and where he stands today," hoping to capitalize on any glaring inconsistencies. Of course, Bradley is free to do the same, and given Gore's history of, well, exaggeration - inventor of the Internet, the inspiration for "Love Story," the savior of the Love Canal - Gore should make sure he doesn't provide the former basketball star with too much ammunition. "Bradley has made it clear all along," says Tumulty, "that one of the things he learned in the NBA is when to throw an elbow...