Word: oldest
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...trampy cousin's boyfriend, having her first kiss at the advanced age of 21. Where Prep was about love and social class, Man of My Dreams is very much a book about love, love, love, but Sittenfeld shows us that there is still something fresh to say about the oldest subject in the world. "Every episode is supposed to be her trying to crack the code of romantic love," Sittenfeld explains, "and skipping the boring parts in between." Sittenfeld is unusually willing to let her characters come off as less than charming from time to time ("You make yourself miserable...
...visit to Harvard's campus, with its severe stone buildings and hushed lecture halls, can be an intimidating introduction to the oldest university in the U.S. But for many prospective applicants, it's not the gargoyles or the geniuses that scare them away from applying to Harvard; it's the bill...
...Number of sit-ups the oldest recruits must be able to do, compared with the 47 required of the youngest recruits...
...years, of the oldest subject--Madame Tussaud, who did her self-portrait...
...with his gun, Carlos started making fun of Don Ruben for the job he was doing, comparing him to a little kid with his hammer, which gave everyone a good laugh. Don Amadeus had a particularly raucous laugh. And since Don Ruben’s pride as the oldest brother was threatened, he said, “I should hire an Indian to do it for me.” Despite the laughter that followed, the air became significantly tenser.In that short moment, pretty much ending the conversation, so many power dynamics and varying life paths of modern day Guatemalans...