Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skyrockets and sea chanteys and buried treasure -- the thrilling unknown. Then she spies hunky, lonely Prince Eric, and it's impossible love at first sight. For Eric, when he is saved by the mermaid and nursed by her caressing song, it's love at first sound. A cross-species Romeo and Juliet: boy meets gill...
Professor Romeo...
Marty must have expected us to run across a Jacob Barker or two. Barker, the protagonist--if he can be called that--in Anne Bernays' Professor Romeo, is not only the epitome of slime, but he is utterly unaware of his depravity...
...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...
...this is not to suggest that caution is a bad thing: Romeo and Juliet died prematurely, after all. Romance has always included some degree of calculation. Indeed, the very notion of true love, according to many scholars, is a relatively recent invention; in most places, in most times, marriage has been a practical arrangement. Those who scoff at matrimonial ads in Indian papers may have few qualms about placing SWM notices in their local tabloids; a blind date is only an arranged marriage in potentia. If disease and collision liability have put a crimp in promiscuity, that...