Word: pal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handle it. The 25,000 or so employees who wrestle with heavy caseloads, bad technology, long hours and growing threats to their safety, who find purpose in the bureau motto of "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity," can handle just about anything--anything but walking down the street and having a pal from the local police department slide up in his cruiser and ask mocking questions about all the cases the FBI has screwed up and all the headlines it's made and "Hey, what's the deal with this Whitehurst...
Shari A. Davis, a third grader from the Blessed Sacrament School, said that meeting her pen-pal was the highlight...
...mail from my best boyhood pal, Stevie Scharfstein, recently. this in itself is not unusual; by now everyone I've ever known has E-mailed me, except a boy named Krepple I once met in Miami Beach in 1967. While the medium wasn't unusual, the message was. Scharfstein, a lawyer in Beaverton, Oregon, wanted the name of "a good Internet detective." My old friend is now learning his way around a curious new growth industry: Internet-sparked divorces...
...February, according to the Advocate, a national gay-and-lesbian magazine, from the lovelorn Smithers on The Simpsons to the lovelorn Matt on Melrose Place), that one of Ellen's producers offers the half-joking observation that homosexuals "have become the new stock character, like the African-American pal at the workplace...
Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she's a lesbian. Well, nobody's perfect. And, indeed, she's not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden's passion. This makes him feel terrific--the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky--who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out--discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden...