Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate I was to have known you and to have your confidence." To Katharine Graham, head of the Washington Post: "Hello, my sweetheart, how are you . . . You know, there's only one thing I dislike about this job . . . that I'm married and I can't ever get to see you. I hear that sweet voice on the telephone . . . and I would like to break out of here and be like...
...maintain his job as director of the design department of an important publishing house. Erna, Jane Louise's boss, spawns a brood of children and grandchildren, wears sensible tweeds, bakes cakes, attends P.T.A. meetings, and harbours a secret crush on Sven. The idealist secretary soullessly dates her high school sweetheart, and plans a lacey wedding. The country friends lead picture-perfect robust outdoor lives...
Bowe welcomes the chance to set an example. He doesn't drink or do drugs. He married his high school sweetheart, Judy, a born-again Christian he knew for three years before they exchanged their first kiss. A share of his earnings is invested in trust funds to provide college educations for his children: Riddick Jr., 7; Riddicia, 5; Brenda, 3; and a baby due in April...
...both appear together. The comic frame is the key that enabled Lichtenstein to unlock his nostalgia for experiences he was old enough to have had but didn't -- he went into a pilot training program in Mississippi in 1944 and might have been that pink boy embracing his sweetheart in front of the bomber. His girls are the nymphs of a lost Arcadia of gush, as remote from us now as Gibson girls were from the '60s. Their innocence is oddly counterpointed by the naivete with which they are painted...
...more of the first and third, and for much less of the second. In the sense in which "gossipy, though there are some wonderful anecdotes about acquaintances who later became as famous as Merrill, or more famous: the young Alison Lurie, the old Alice B. Toklas, and the former sweetheart of Eugenio Montale all get walk-on parts. But "gossip" can mean not only a set of topics but a kind of language, the kind which fixates on names and dates, on who did what with Merrill when, and sometimes why. In this sense "gossip" is the enemy...