Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Technology, too, serves to make our liaisons more dangerous. Rob Lowe was apparently uncovered by a videotape, common-law suitors are often betrayed by photographs, and, in response to all this, more and more people choose to interface, date or even make love over the phone. If a modern Juliet were to try to reach her lover before feigning her own death, she might well hear, "Hi! This is Romeo! Nobody's here right...
When my parents got on the phone, I told them I had stared death in the face...
...Steven Soderbergh. Their characters are quick and engaging; they could be the thirtysomething folks on a good day, in a gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve up the urban scene at its most urbane. Clean taxis and great apartments appear in a trice, and no one's upscale job deprives him of quality time for soul scratching. But in both films the surface prettiness is just...
...true. He was interviewing some guy who spent $50,000 on phone sex. Mort called him a pervert, and I just lost it. It shot right out of my nose...
Folly. Or stupidity? I consider myself a semi-bright student who mastered the art of taking phone messages sometime in my early teens. Yet, as a housesitter, I must straddle the fine line between being honest (that the owners will not be home until August) and being discreet. After all, I'm not sure I want all of Boston proper to know that the owners are gone, and this young, inexperienced and often careless student is now a temporary resident...