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Word: friendlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chris and I had left to go pick up his friend Jim. Jim was friends with Jan, who also dances at Visions. We'd seen her before picking up Jim. She came on after Phoenix, and had an elastic brace on her left knee. Tendons...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: PHOENIX | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...name from a highschool friend, who she reminded of a firebird with her hair. Phoenix had ended up in Madison after winning the Miss Nude Arizona contest; she met an agent who brought her to Wisconsin. Madison is a very comfortable place to live, with a huge student population, two lakes, and an isthmus between the working class east side and the suburban west...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: PHOENIX | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...only really likable characters are the son Will, his best friend Wag and another youth named Spencer, who is obsessed with the disappearance of the dinosaurs. "In the boy's bedroom were hundreds of dinosaur models . . . An inflated Rhamphorhynchus dangled from the ceiling fixture. ('It means "prow beak," ' Spencer said.)" Spencer is showing his dinosaurs to a hungry-eyed art-gallery owner named Haveabud, who, in a truly sinister scene watched by Will, seduces him during a trip to Florida. There is quite a bit of sex in Beattieland, most of it adulterous and joyless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beattieland | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Stuart, 30, played the role of tragic victim with the boyish charm of a Ted Bundy, the dazed innocence of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald. His farewell letter to his wife, composed in his bed at Boston City Hospital and read at the funeral by his best friend, was a tour de force of grief. "You have brought joy and kindness to every life you've touched. Now you sleep away from me. I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine." Many at the crowded funeral at St. James Church in Medford, the very church where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Whatever transpired, by New Year's Day Matthew reportedly become distraught and worn down. At Reardon's pub in Revere after a concert in Boston, Matthew was so depressed that a friend thought he was considering suicide. "I've got to do it, got to get it over with. I'm destroying myself," a friend recalled him saying. Matthew explained he wasn't talking about killing himself. "You don't understand. That's not what I mean. When it happens, you'll all know. The whole world will know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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