标题: The Wedding I Thought Would Never Happen [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-21-2021 11:46 标题: The Wedding I Thought Would Never Happen Danielle Gelfand (the "I" in the title next), The Wedding I Thought Would Never Happen; A reality TV producer who spent most of her days orchestrating elaborate scenes for singles looking for love finally became the star of her own long-awaited love story. New York Times, Dec 6, 2020 (in the SundayStyles section, amidst wedding announcements). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/ ... d-never-happen.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/f ... s5dp3hae-story.html
Note:
(a) "I escaped as a VH1 reality TV producer on dating shows that were about other people who found love, but never me."
(i) Warner created MTV (Music Television) in 1977. Warner then set up VH1 in 1985 to pursue a different segment of music lovers. Both are still operating in Manhattan, part of ViacomCBS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1
(ii) Her resume in her website (https://daniellegelfand.com) says her tenure with VH1 is 1999 − 2014 and mostly about reality, not dating, show.
Love and Hip Hop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Hip_Hop
(March 2011-May 2020; The shows document the personal and professional lives of several hip hop and R&B musicians, performers, managers, and record producers residing in various metropolitan areas of the United States)
(b) "Normal events for other women, like radio silence [stopping communication for a couple of days] after appointments, put me on a tailspin and hit my cancel button [to nip the bud of the potential relationship]."
Cancel. Computer Hope, updated on Dec 31, 2020 https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/cancel.htm
("Cancel may refer to any of the following:
1. Cancel is a button or option that allows you to exit a program or dialog box and not save any of the changes made.
• Cancel key [Esc]
• Cancel shortcut [Ctrl + C]
2. Cancel is also a Linux command")
(c) "our favorite 80’s videos, his Van Halen's 'Jump' to my Duran Duran's 'Hungry Like the Wolf.' "
(i) Van Halen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen
(1974–2020; hard rock; its prodigy lead-guitarist, Eddie Van Halen [1955-2000 (died of stroke); co-founded the band])
(ii) Duran Duran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran
(formed in Birmingham, England, in 1978, to the present; They went on to name the band after 'Dr Durand Durand,' Milo O'Shea's character from the [1968] sci-fi film Barbarella)
The French and English (of Norman origin) surname Durand or Durant is from Latin name Durandus.
(d) " 'I'm a lifelong pedestrian, what rhymes with never?' I said."
There are about 40 English words that rhymes with never. Disfavoring whatever (which sounds unkind), I root for "Lead her." 作者: choi 时间: 1-21-2021 11:47 本帖最后由 choi 于 1-21-2021 14:46 编辑
* The adjective fecund is about the same as fertile. The former can be used to described soil also.
fecund (adj): "producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; highly fertile <a lush and fecund garden>" https://www.lexico.com/definition/fecund
Vocabulary.com for fecund gives examples of "fecund farmland" and "a rich and fecund land."