The classic, romantic codes of femininity are my tools.
They can figure out the parameters of their relationships on an individual level and eschew conventional sexual and romantic codes in favor of ongoing discussion about their own needs and interests, and the needs and interests of their partners.
He is, in other words, the personification of huah, which is the romantic warrior code of George S. Patton put into verbal form.
Later, over Champagne and potato chips, well, it's easy to imagine the 1950s romantic but code-cleaned comedy plot.
Outside the orbit of the Harlowes stands Lovelace, nephew of Lord M and a romantic who held the code of the Harlowes in contempt.
The exceptions to the code of romantic anonymity are his two wives: the actor and model Julianne Phillips, whom he married in 1985; and the singer Patti Scialfa, with whom he took up when the first marriage was faltering and with whom he now has three grown-up children.
Dennis noted the two are "not consistently coded as romantic partners," since they live in separate residences, and have distinct groups of friends, but claimed that in the series, "the possibility of same-sex desire is never excluded".
But with the current fondness for new romantic, and the cavalier dress code at electroclash clubs et al, swashbuckling seems to be in the air.
The great attraction of Puzo's and Coppola's "Godfather" was the romantic notion that a criminal code of honor, based on family, could persist in the modern era.
He had called and asked a question that any woman would find romantic: "What's your ZIP code?" Then Valentine's Day arrived, and this is what he sent: a postcard.
