One of the ways he has maintained some privacy is by keeping his romantic relationships away from the cameras.
He refuses to supply an older woman who's keeping that romantic heterosexual fellow.
That doesn't mean you have to date or be romantic; keeping clear boundaries from the start will help keep all parties involved from getting confused.
But he's still here: still giving match-winning performances and scoring memorable goals, still bringing hope to a city besieged with socio-economic and cultural challenges, still giving hope to the thousands of children who dream of becoming the next monument in Italian football, still keeping alive the romantic dream of the classic fantasista.
Rather than abandon the project, Mr. Martin and Mr. Miller decided to go back to the drawing board and create an entirely new story to go with Ellington's songs, keeping only the romantic triangle at the center of the plot and moving the location from the South Africa of the 1950's to the Harlem of the 1920's.
Or urban romantic portraits keeping company with Civil War daguerreotypes, including an ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln, who stopped in Newark en route to his inauguration in New York.
As Dwight Macdonald wrote in 1959, the trouble with most sociological reporting "is that people are at a distance from their subjects": The romanticism of poverty is a luxury idea, possible only to slummers from above, like Rousseau's concept of the noble savage; the poor are too busy keeping alive to feel romantic or, except occasionally, to realize fully the horror of their lives.
Those two flicked Vs in the middle of the quintet's name are a feint – it's pronounced "always", in keeping with the sense of romantic longing that saturates their songwriting, as briefly showcased on last summer's eponymous debut album.
Charm is integral, look out for red flags – coming on too strong; using words like "always" and "forever"; calling all the time; turning up unannounced; keeping you so busy with romantic surprises that you don't see your friends; bombarding you with presents; buying you a new phone (to check where you are, or even to track the GPS); picking out your clothes.
