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...then I thought that I'd rather not do it somewhere that's all glitzy and forced romantic, like Tahiti or Scores, places that don't represent our real life together, which is actually full of tedium and drudgery, though a really pleasant tedium and drudgery. So I made her a big tofu dinner in our studio apartment. Then I woke her up at 1:30 a.m. and told her that over the past six months, I've been tearing up over Friends episodes about marriage and the ending of What Women Want. I told her that my life...
...then I thought that I'd rather not do it somewhere that's all glitzy and forced romantic, like Tahiti or Scores, places that don't represent our real life together, which is actually full of tedium and drudgery, though a really pleasant tedium and drudgery. So I made her a big tofu dinner in our studio apartment. Then I woke her up at 1:30 a.m. and told her that over the past six months, I've been tearing up over Friends episodes about marriage and the ending of What Women Want. I told her that my life...
...appointment, which came as a “pleasant surprise” to Putnam, recognizes his “high international standing” as a foreign scholar in the humanities and social sciences...
...errand down the road from their Easthampton home to the local Hess market in Wainscott to pick up the newspaper. (This being the Hamptons, summer playground for Manhattan's elite, the Hess station looks more like a Starbucks, but the gas pumps give it away.) The Grubmans were always pleasant on these weekend jaunts, insists a Hess employee, who asked to remain anonymous. But each time they came, he notes, they would park their car (sometimes a Jaguar, sometimes an SUV) in the same spot, right outside the front door, the one labeled for the handicapped...
...January I had a very pleasant 2 1/2-hour lunch with the commissioner, and things seemed to be going pretty well. Early on, I actually thought we were going to get approval. We made our case [in a Feb. 26 meeting in Brussels], and we went back to the hotel. I thought we had a shot. Then we came back at 6:30, and they said that they had thought about our arguments, that they made some sense, but that the commission had to go to phase two [of the investigation]. I was naturally hopeful that my persuasive tone would...