Word: girlfriends
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...precious commodity: stars. So on the red carpet at the 66th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica - better known as the Venice Film Festival - were Nicolas Cage, Matt Damon, Viggo Mortensen and, for a little old-fashioned glamour, Omar Sharif. Inside the Sala Grande, George Clooney introduced his new girlfriend, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis; and when the projector broke down at a screening of his film The Men Who Stare at Goats, he entertained the audience with a vigorous rendition of "O Sole...
...public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines happiness from a thoroughly modern—and therefore highly empirical—standpoint. “How programmed are we?” Russell vulnerably begs. His girlfriend, a therapist, responds honestly, but then adds encouragingly, “Temperament can self-modify. People can get free, or at least a little freer.” This is not enough for Russell, who laments, “But not as free as we’re bred...
...show films that have a certain aesthetic complexity.” This stylistic complexity can contribute to a film’s overall intricacy, as in the case of “Z32,” where the weighty conversation between the Isreali solider and his girlfriend is interspersed with Mograbi singing Grecian chorus style. The director effectively confounds the gravity of his subject matter with the frivolity of song, a component that offended Palestinian audiences when it was screened in the West Bank. But whether Mograbi’s work is sympathetic to the manipulation of the Israel Defense...
...understand their concern for large pets, dogs and cats, but for fish, turtles, hamsters, no reason to,” said this student’s girlfriend, who share what they consider joint custody of their two hamsters, Hammie and Marshmallow, and a rat they rescued from certain death at a Harvard...
...what about Elise Garber and her first kiss, Harlan Robins? For them, life really did resemble a romantic comedy. Robins remembered his summer-camp girlfriend and replied to her Facebook message. They agreed to meet for drinks the next time he was in Chicago. When they saw each other, something clicked. They talked into the night, went out the next day, then decided to give their long-distance retrosexual romance a try. Surprisingly, it worked. Garber quit her advertising job and moved to Seattle to be with him. On Sept. 6, they married. "And to think," says Garber, "I worried...