Beth, for instance, is a nervous, conventional friend, an overobvious counterpoint to the devil-may-care Hannie.
Despite Ms. Klein's earlier plea to the bridegroom that he was not ready to lead a conventional life, friends suggest that in marrying an artist it is the bride who now must face up to a break with convention, if not tradition.
Talking It Over not only presents a scandalous tale of a charismatic slacker seducing away the new bride of his more conventional "best friend", but also ends with a sensational scene in which Gillian goads mercurial new husband Oliver into hitting her in the village square for the benefit of lurking, heartbroken ex-husband Stuart, in order to perform an act of emotional exorcism.
"My friends' conventional lives seemed boring by comparison, and they always liked coming to my house.
Using Hewlett-Packard's inkjet technology and Kodak's image science, retailers will be able to offer consumers the options of printing pictures on a variety of media and of sending digital files made from conventional film to friends or family over the Internet.
The same question applies to more conventional comedy: a friend of mine saw a disappointing show the other day featuring two standups who seemed not to have rehearsed any material, relying instead on riffing off one another, not always to great comic effect.
Nowhere was the talent that Forster had for approaching things slightly askew, for bringing together the things we expect to be opposite – personal and political, conventional and unconventional, friend and rival – more evident than in his relationship with Bob and May Buckingham.
Demand for their services exceeds supply; some boast they earn more than their friends in conventional graduate jobs: £1,000 ($1,650) a week if they are lucky.
HUMPDAY Afraid they've become too conventional, two straight male friends (Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard) decide to make love on camera and enter the results in a Seattle film festival of amateur pornography.
Mechanicville then retreated into a more conventional defense and Bernstein and friends took over.
