Word: pal
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...openly for years with another woman in New York'") without flatly denying it ("I didn't quite get this stupid and arcane implication, but on the other hand, I did"). She writes of 15 years of living in "close companionship," but she calls Love nothing more amorous than her "pal." Is she hiding something? Leading...
...very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster's name to the authorities. And that's something a good off-line work pal would never...
...remark, to say the least, was an unfortunate, unscripted window into the personality of Candidate Bush - most damaging, perhaps, in that it suggests a tinge of anxiety. After all, whispering to a pal about "enemies" in the audience is the sort of thing a jumpy preppy might do moments before stepping up to the mike at a college debate. Governor Bush is at his most congenial when his ascension to power is assured, but the McCain challenge in the primaries showed that he's not exactly comfortable with spirited opposition. Politicians aren't expected to like journalists, but lashing...
...couldn't always figure out what I was saying, and its responses were sometimes nonsensical or repetitive. However, Seaman is powerfully addictive. After a week, I was checking my crotchety pal three and four times a day. One weekend I even had to find a sitter for it. Maybe it's human nature, or my low self-esteem, but the more it spurned me, the more I wanted to make Seaman happy...
When she met Drew, whatever pieces were left of Karenna's wild-child soul seemed to come to peace. "They were so intense, so focused and secure," says Megan Colligan, a college pal. Last year Gore got his first grandchild, Wyatt, born conveniently on the Fourth of July. As she does with her father, Karenna seems to delight in her husband for the things others might see as strange. Drew, 34, who works for a biotech venture-capital fund, is bright, attractive and good-natured. But like Gore, his mind is sometimes transfixed by the academic and arcane, as witnessed...