Word: pet
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...That day I was their pet. I sat in Dave's living room in Eliot and just watched him and his roommate Andre stick posters on the walls and argue about the placement of the furniture. They fussed over me--how did I like my dorm, and Annenberg, and what did I think of the place--not too much, but enough so that I talked and felt witty and knowledgeable, an insider on my first day. Everything impressed me: the vintage hexagonal tiles in their bathroom, the working fireplace, the slant of the light, Andre's chic black shoes (that...
...several years on a farm outside Vancouver. Lang has said she owes much of the inspiration for Summer to several weeks spent listening to old Mamas and the Papas albums, but some of her new CD's best songs, like Love's Great Ocean and Summerfling, better evoke Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson in their spacious, light-filled harmonies. This carefree, sand-between-your-toes music liberates lang from the leaden arrangements that made Drag such a--well, you know...
...froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absentmindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately retrieved them just before my highly sensitive aquarium fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish...
...oversees. Although Shas voted with some conservative parties opposed to Barak's peace proposals, the bill has to pass two further readings before becoming law, and the party's leaders made clear they would return to the fold if the prime minister agrees to resume negotiations over funding their pet project...
...pet theory of mine that women better accommodate change than men do because of the biological vicissitudes that mark their lives--ovulation, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause. By contrast, the typical man, usually around adolescence, invents a persona for himself. He establishes a personal brand identity and then struggles to maintain it, with mind-numbing intransigence, amid the fluctuations of the world around...