Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best friends in high school started to lose his hair during our sophomore year. My other friends and I, eager to ridicule any personal flaw we could find in our companions, embarked on a three-year crusade to torment our balding pal...
...Across the Eighth Dimension, Subway takes the audience by the hand and says, "Look, kid. It's time to get a little crazy. For the next coupla hours we're gonna talk about some serious things. Murder, Marriage Crime. The usual sociopathy. But not to worry, old buddy old pal [patting the audience, puplike, on the noggin], 'cause through it all, for all our seriousness, we're not gonna take ourselves all that seriously...
...most significant departures were those of Oliver Everett, Diana's private secretary, who left in 1983, and Edward Adeane, Charles' longtime private secretary, who departed six months ago. Everett, a polo-playing pal of the prince's and Diana's cicerone for two years, grew frustrated by what he thought of as Diana's capriciousness and asked to be shifted. Adeane, a barrister by profession, had been Charles' private secretary for six years. He saw his role as guiding the prince toward kingship. The reasons for his leaving are unclear. Some say that Adeane was annoyed by the incessant foofaraw...
...writer" (aren't they supposed to be sensitive?) is demolished by James (Once Upon a Time in America) Woods in a typically overheated ax murderer's job of acting. His nostrils perpetually flaring and his mannerisms obstinately childish even at "significant" moments (like the awful scene where his writer-pal dies), one thought sums Woods up: he gives great stereotypes. As Mr. Ackroyd would say: "The essence...
Which didn't keep Velvets' pal Gerard Melanga and British writer Victor Bockris from penning Up-Tight, a comprehensive Velvet Underground bio. The Polygram/Verve label remastered the first Velvets album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, and rereleased the second and third albums White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground, long out of print...