What kind of friends or acquaintances does it have?
One side effect was that friends and acquaintances didn't know how to react to us.
Many of their close friends know, but most of their casual acquaintances don't.
Acquaintances did not notice any abrupt change in his life style: Gilman wore elegant clothes, but otherwise he and his wife appeared to live relatively modestly.
A very young Alain Delon plays Ripley, a charming young man who would kill to live the way his rich acquaintances do.
"He and his friends used to go around, cadge money from acquaintances, do odd jobs, live from hand to mouth," Mr. Abelson said of his brother.
Many of my acquaintances don't know that I walked out of an arranged marriage two days after the wedding, fleeing to my parents' home to find solace.
Jay, who asked to be identified only by his middle name because acquaintances do not know he is infected with H.I.V., says he believes he contracted the virus in the late 1980's from a dirty heroin needle.
DOOR WIDE OPEN: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 By Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson Viking ($24.95, hardcover) From commentary on the letters by Joyce Johnson: Many of my new acquaintances didn't live in apartments like most New Yorkers.
He explains that William Goldman, a screenwriter, did a similar exercise for Broadway 30 years earlier; but emulating one's more famous friends (most of the stars who appear in the book are described as friends or acquaintances) does not seem reason enough.
