Word: sweethearted
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Following his graduation in 1934, Monro married his childhood sweetheart, Dorothy Stevens Foster, who died...
Imagine you have been dating someone for years. The relationship is blossoming, but one day your sweetheart informs you that instead of calling, you should communicate by e-mail. And if you want to get together, you should arrange that through an online dating service, where you will be competing with other suitors. That, in essence, is the message that suppliers of everything from paper clips to maintenance services got a couple of years ago from manufacturers eager to try business-to-business, or B2B, exchanges on the Internet. The suppliers' partners were suddenly asking them to sign...
Other character portrayals in the outback were similarly inaccurate. Nick gossips that although “Elizabeth came off as everybody’s sweetheart, she really got on a lot of people’s nerves.” Nick adds that Stuff model Amber who seemed bland and uncontroversial was just as bland in real life. “Some people tried to use the camera as an opportunity to change their lives, once they returned. I think that Jeff, Keith and Jerri were the big camera hogs, and though the show wasn’t always nice...
...realism, but is a much tamer and less venturesome writer. But novels such as Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood have been runaway best sellers, racking up sales in the millions, and his short stories have been published in prestigious American magazines such as The New Yorker. However, Sputnik Sweetheart (Kodansha International; 210 pages), the latest shot out of the Murakami cannon, sadly promises more than it can deliver and proves...
...misunderstanding." Such pretentious meditations become even more irksome because of the cloying interspersions of Western allusions, from "snap, crackle, pop" to "The name is Bond. James Bond" to Huey Lewis and the News. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (The Gourmet Club) and Philip Gabriel (Sputnik Sweetheart) serve their authors well as their English translators, but only Tanizaki demonstrates that he deserves his place in literary global orbit...