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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rihanna • previous clues that Chris Brown might be a bad boyfriend were apparently missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...like a smaller, more delicately featured Hugh Grant - but simply because Becky seems more interested in mannequins than in men. There's nothing womanly about any of her getups; they're more like costumes put on by a little girl playing dress-up. She's not looking for a boyfriend; she's looking for a $120 scarf that, as she says in voiceover, can help define your psyche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Shopaholic: Relic of an Economy Past | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Britain, is a hummable single about vapid consumerism ("I want to be rich and I want lots of money/ I don't care about clever I don't care about funny") that honors both "Lost in the Supermarket" and "Material Girl." "Not Fair" laments that her otherwise excellent boyfriend is lousy in bed ("I look into your eyes, I want to get to know yer/ And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over") but advances from slagging wit to real disappointment in the chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures of Lily | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Straightforward as it is, Harvey's book reads like Jacques Derrida compared with Whitney Casey's The Man Plan. A former host of Great Day Houston, Casey is blond, divorced and telegenic enough to get a blurb for her book from Lance Armstrong, the champion bad boyfriend. She polled 250 men to come up with such insights as, Men get confused by shiny jewelry and big handbags, don't like it when hair smells of fajita and are impressed by TV sets hung on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for the New Dating Game | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...think it helped us in medical school,” he told me. “Out of 12 couples going into medical school, we were the only couple to survive.” Interdisciplinary love seemed doomed. What if you’re arguing with your biologist boyfriend, and you tell him, “Wait a minute. I think we’re trapped in an oppressive discourse”—and he has no idea that you’re talking about Foucault? Or what if your mathematician boyfriend slips his arm around your shoulders...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dating Outside the Humanities | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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