In the mid-nineties, the novelist Orhan Pamuk began collecting objects from markets and from friends and acquaintances, thinking that he might someday house them in "a weird museum".
In the mid-nineties, the novelist Orhan Pamuk began collecting objects from markets and from friends and acquaintances, thinking that he might someday house them in… It's officially springtime — a good moment to revisit "You're Getting Married," Rebecca Mead's story, from 2003, about the wedding industry.
So consider this a cheatsheet; here's every show in the ballot, in reverse order of popularity, accompanied by a micro-review that you can use to fool friends and acquaintances into thinking that you've seen them.
10 P.M. (NBC) DATELINE NBC Mike Taibbi reports on the case of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, better known as Clark Rockefeller, who for years conned acquaintances, friends and even his wife into thinking he was a member of the powerful Rockefeller clan.
(By the way, did you know that Facebook started saving your searches beginning today?) My friends – not subscribers or acquaintances, just friends – and I were not thinking about privacy on my birthday in 2008.
Make time to call, visit, or email new acquaintances so that they know you are thinking about them, and are interested in how they are doing.
Standing in a noisy room, thinking of things to say to acquaintances for hours on end is an absurd pastime which I can't believe anyone could enjoy while also in a state to legally drive a car.
I've been thinking about this ever since an acquaintance referred to extreme noise in restaurants as "legal age discrimination".
A mutual acquaintance, aware that two of his friends were thinking along the same lines, introduced Dr. Marsters to Robert H. Weitbrecht, a physicist at Stanford University, in 1964.
From talking to some straight-guy acquaintances who are considering single fatherhood, their reasons for thinking about it are similar to women's.
Each time, the students were given one of three tasks: look at a photo of their partner, look at a photo of an equally attractive acquaintance, or perform a meaningless distraction task, such as thinking about sports.
