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# Về rồi thì đừng đi nữa ^^ Hiện tại t cần m , mỗi m , một mình m VNTV :'p Đừng để t.c t Nhạt m nhaaaaaaaaaa , LovingYou Only C* .
- Tình hình là cui học Hàn Thuyên :@ có ai dô HT k dạ:( =))
- Màu tóc cui hết đc nv. r :< đen xì đen mung , grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :<
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~Story people~
This is an oldie from summer ... I'm so sad I don't have anything new, but I just didn't have enough time and the weather was really bad over this weekend! (Yes blame it on the weather!) :D
Happy pretty pink Tuesday anyways guys! <3 Hope this one counts! :)
Please no large glittery graphics or big group invites!
Edit: countdown ... 15 more days! :D
Explored ... #2! :)
3months rồi đó ôxã :x bên cạnh a vui v' hphúc lắm lắm luôn đó :'p . Nhìu lúc ôxã làm vợ buồn lắm mà k nở giận be uii T.T . Hứa v' vợ ntn thì nhớ đó k đc làm vợ buồn khóc k đc ăn hiếp vợ nữa phải bên cạnh vợ qài nge chuaaa >'p . Yêu ôxã qtqđ luôn nè :* có ns bnhiu lời cg k đủ ns hết tc vợ dành cho a để tgian cminh đi ha mong là a hiểu đc :'p . Vợ k muốn gây lộn vì mấy chuyện k đáng nữa ghét ghét ghét lắm :( . Bây h vợ đag bên cạnh a nè đừng có snlt nữa nha k thích a buồn chút nào hết á. Nhìu điều muốn ns v' ôxã lắm mà k b' ns dì hết trơn thôi tự hiểu đii =)) nchứ vợ thương ôxã lắm cần ôxã lắm bên vợ qài nha :* >d< . LovingYou <PLKV3
GàChimthấyghétkhóưachóđiêndôdiênnhấtnhấthànhtinh. moaz moaz :*** <33
"Deep in December, it's good to remember the fire of September that made us mellow." ~ Ed Ames
My parents are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary this week. They became husband and wife on August 19, 1949.
This is a musical composite project, in their honor.
Here are two of my favorite old songs by Ed Ames (who is now in his 80s also) to commemorate this special time:
Try to Remember :
kaneta.multiply.com/video/item/337/YouTube_-_Harry_Belafo...
MY FAVORITE VOICE for this from a younger Ed Ames:
My Cup Runneth Over with Love:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG_8vIEGCXk&NR=1
[VIDEOGRAPHIC OPTION www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyA55x0-gqE&feature=fvw]
My parents love Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, and all of the old classics. In fact my parents love, love, love beautiful, old romantic music. If you don't know these, well . . .
Take my hand and slip silently into the darkened audience of legendary Tony Bennett signing "Because of You" with the gifted k.d. lang.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9sesopGFqA
It may be hard to imagine, but if you are young and this fortunate, this aging and mellowing may happen to you too. My wish for you and yours is that you also be so blessed.
Congratulations on 60 big years of love, Mom and Dad.
Love you,
Nightshooter09
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ADDED MUSIC SAMPLER Young Tony Bennett with Andy Williams:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoV0q_q6VCk&feature=related
[FRENCH VERSION of "Try to Remember" with NANA MOUSKOURI and HARRY BELAFONTE
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin
I could light the night up with my soul on fire...
I could make the sun shine from pure desire.
Let me feel that love come over me,
Let me feel how strong it could be...
Nếu nốt nhạc là thứ quan trọng trong 1 bài hát . Thì em biết không em chính là Hơi thỡ thứ không thễ thiếu bên anh mỗi ngày :">
solitary,
sun shines bright,
thoughts flying in her head.
time escapes her,
life unravels in black and white.
pen to paper,
but no use.
all is visual,
like an old silent movie in fast forward.
"who am i?", she asks.
"what am i here for?"
she wonders if she'll ever know.
do you know?
like an old silent movie in fast forward,
let her be.
she says she likes silent movies,
she likes silence.
let her be.
~m
everything was right for this picture.. There was hoar frost on the grasses. The mood was changing quickly. Flying low lying fog banks where over the water and sunrise changes with clouds. A moment experience full of luck, where I will gladly remember.
I love poems and I found one in net I would like to post her. profiles.lovingyou.com/library/poemview.php?pid=2107
One for fun...no time to correct shadows...just hope it gives you a smile.
Happy Valentine's Day, Flickr Friends!! I'm sending loving thoughts, warm greetings, and a bushel of thanks for your continued friendship.
Prints | FB | Soundcloud | Insta | Twitter | G+ | Blog | © Ben Heine
Prints, canvases and posters of this artwork can be found HERE.
Please also check out this video showing the making of.
This is my circlist portrait of Elvis Presley. I've always admired him. I wanted to make something unusual and give him the aspect of a solid and invincible robot... but not a real "terminator" because he was especially a romantic man with one of the most beautiful voices ever...
Please enlarge to see how it's done. I've only used circles of different sizes and colors on a black background. The whole portrait took me several days of intense work. There is no trick, those circles aren't placed automatically, I've positioned each circle one by one. I'm now going to make a circlist portrait of Freddie Mercury...
For more info about my projects, contact: info@benheine.com
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Love Me
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Love me tender
Love me now
Our I’ll return to sender
Your love somehow
Love me for ever
And don’t let me go
Don’t be too cleaver
For me to know
Every your way
Is loves to take
You are my day
For each my heartache
Every your love
Be good or ill
Like clouds here above
Drift or rain spill
Love is in the air
This singing spring
Beauty is all around here
In that these times bring
Bouquet’s beautiful rose
How dear you are now
Fragrance sweet and close
Is summer days endow
Love me tender
Love me still
Every day is a splendor
With you to fulfill
Let's forget the winter blahs and start celebrating February early. This is my most favorite *80's" Barbie. Her name is Loving You. She's extra special to me as I bought her brand new off the shelf in what year? Well too many years ago. Anyway she wants to wish everyone a month full of love and friendship.
credit to Tim_in_Ohio...
this photograph taken at the park last Aiko`s birthday , tired of many parlor games, and one of my friends took this snap, and I just add this texture, to make it old like...and I love this as a result.. I really love to do this process in Photoshop...texture addict he heh ..lol...peace ...
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never
come to an end; they are new every morning. . .
- Lamentations 3:22-23
Happy Thursday to all my flickr friends...I`ll be back to you later, Off to my check up...
LOve you in the Love of the Lord!!! keep on Smillin~~~ Arlenk...
Io caxxeggio e penso a te,
disegnucchio e penso a te
mentre tempero intanto penso a te....
T.T che croce.
This photo © by me ♥
3months rồi đó ôxã :x bên cạnh a vui v' hphúc lắm lắm luôn đó :'p . Nhìu lúc ôxã làm vợ buồn lắm mà k nở giận be uii T.T . Hứa v' vợ ntn thì nhớ đó k đc làm vợ buồn khóc k đc ăn hiếp vợ nữa phải bên cạnh vợ qài nge chuaaa >'p . Yêu ôxã qtqđ luôn nè :* có ns bnhiu lời cg k đủ ns hết tc vợ dành cho a để tgian cminh đi ha mong là a hiểu đc :'p . Vợ k muốn gây lộn vì mấy chuyện k đáng nữa ghét ghét ghét lắm :( . Bây h vợ đag bên cạnh a nè đừng có snlt nữa nha k thích a buồn chút nào hết á. Nhìu điều muốn ns v' ôxã lắm mà k b' ns dì hết trơn thôi tự hiểu đii =)) nchứ vợ thương ôxã lắm cần ôxã lắm bên vợ qài nha :* >d< . LovingYou <NTTN3
Sunset. Shark-shaped rocks protrude from extreme terrain, as if they were jumping out of Dry Seas…
The poet’s Red rose ignites the skies —by painting them in colours reminiscent of Luve’s eternal flames— and melts the rocks…
To my own Luve this photograph is Dedicated, on St. Valentine’s day:
I’m STILL LOVING YOU
The photograph’s location is to remain secret, as a mature man’s private nest for the forthcoming Sunset of Life…
(Love is intentionally spelled in a Scottish way in the present caption)
“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.”
—Robert Burns.
~ S mặc tuôi đê tiệg qá dạ tr` : (
~ Tuôi ớm ớm qá moắi pọan :">
~ Tự hào veeeeeeee : x
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. Sắp đy học òi : ) HamHam qá đê ^^ Nhớ moắi fen nhèo lám :' )
. Mog đừn't tách lớp nè nhaaaaaaaaaa :' D
# Tuôi hp dới nhữg dì tuôi đag có : x
# Mún như d. qài qài :">
mp3.zing.vn/bai-hat/Noi-tinh-yeu-bat-dau-Bui-Anh-Tuan/IW9...
* Com & Fav cho Ti nha :* Ti sẽ rép lại ^^ Đừn't chùa :' D
. Dnài Ti ít onl lám nên rẹp chậm cho moắi bạn :">
. yh: yurin1998 - ola : ti.change_2k12
Có thễ TAO ns m không tin nhưng những điều MÀY ns TAO phãi KHINH :-j
Chĩ cần cãm nhận tất cã từ phía sau , Em sẽ nhận thấy Anh Yêu Em ntn :3 . LovingYou :*
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 5350. Dolores Hart and Elvis Presley in Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957).
When The Beatles came to America in 1965 there was only one person they wanted to meet: Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Elvis had more multiplatinum album sales than any other performer, with twelve albums selling over 2 million copies.
Dolores Hart (1938) is an actress, known for Where the Boys Are (1960), Francis of Assisi (1961) and Come Fly with Me (1963). In 1963, Hart left Hollywood for good and became a nun.
For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Finally, things are how they are suppose to be,
Me with you and you with me,
This is the way its suppose to be
We love each other,
Care for one another
Plan for the future
We are together and this will last forever
Our love is picture perfect,
Together we are unstoppable
Capable of anything
Indestructible
Nothing can stop us
This is how things are suppose to be
Me with you and you with me
Together forever in Harmony
Together we are lost
In a forest or a jungle not to be found
Once we are together things fall into place and we are happy
Finally, things are how they are suppose to be,
Me with you and you with me,
This is the way its suppose to be
We love each other,
Care for one another
Plan for the future
We are together and this will last forever
Our love is picture perfect,
Together we are unstoppable
Capable of anything
Indestructible
Nothing can stop us
This is how things are suppose to be
Me with you and you with me.
© Ben Heine || Facebook || Twitter || www.benheine.com
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Please also check out this video showing the making of.
Some details of my circlist portrait of Elvis Presley. Please enlarge to see how it's done. I've only used circles of different sizes and colors on a black background. The whole portrait took me several days of intense work.
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For more information about my art: info@benheine.com
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Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, Utrecht, no. AX 5901. Elvis Presley in Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957).
When The Beatles came to America in 1965 there was only one person they wanted to meet: Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Elvis had more multi-platinum album sales than any other performer, with twelve albums selling over 2 million copies.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1935. He moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee when he was 13 years old. His musical career began in 1953 when he recorded a song at the later Sun Studio that was released on Sam Phillips' Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley became an early populariser of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm-and-blues. The record company RCA Victor took over his contract in a deal prepared by Colonel Tom Parker, who would serve as the singer's manager for more than two decades. Presley's first single 'That's All Right' was released in July 1954. This was followed by 'Heartbreak Hotel', an American number one hit, in January 1956. After a series of successful television appearances and records that reached the top of the sales charts, he was regarded as rock 'n' roll's most prominent figure. His energetic interpretations of songs and sexually provocative stage performances, combined with a remarkably appealing fusion of multi-ethnic influences that coincided with the rise of the civil rights movement, made him at once immensely popular and controversial. The America of the immediate post-World War II period saw great economic growth, with young people having more to spend. Individual development gradually became more important and so a youth culture emerged with various subcultures that opposed the older generation. Presley was the embodiment of this and thus became the first pop idol. Elvis made his debut as an actor in the film Love Me Tender (Robert D. Webb, 1956). Although he was not at the top of the bill, the film's initial title, The Reno Brothers, was changed to capitalise on his last number one hit: 'Love Me Tender' had topped the charts earlier that month. To capitalise even more on Presley's popularity, four musical numbers were added to the original strict actor's role. Although critics cracked the film, it did well with filmgoers. Soon followed more films, including Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe, 1957) and King Creole (Michael Curtiz, 1958) with Carolyn Jones and Walter Matthau, In 1958, he was drafted into the army.
On 2 March 1960, Elvis Presley returned to the US and was given an honourable discharge with the rank of sergeant. The train taking him from New Jersey to Tennessee was stormed by a crowd the entire way. In Nashville, he recorded songs for a new album and the single 'Stuck on You', which quickly became a number one hit. Two weeks later, he recorded a pair of ballads that would become among his best-selling singles, 'It's Now or Never' and 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' In October, 'G.I. Blues' was a number one album. It was the soundtrack to Presley's first film since his return, G.I. Blues (Norman Taurog, 1960) with Juliet Prowse and Leticia Roman. On 25 March, another benefit concert took place in Hawaii, raising money for a memorial to the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was Presley's last public appearance for the next seven years. Colonel Parker had manoeuvred Presley into a busy schedule of making formulaic, modest-budget musical film comedies. Initially, Presley insisted on pursuing serious roles, but when two films of a more dramatic nature - the Western Flaming Star (Don Siegel, 1960) with Steve Forrest and Dolores Del Rio, and Wild in the Country (Philip Dunne, 1961) with Tuesday Weld - met with less commercial success, he resigned himself to the formula. Even among the 27 films, he made in the 1960s, there were still a few exceptions to the formula. In Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney, 1964) he met his perfect match in the stunningly beautiful Ann-Margreta who was a more independent-than-usual female co-star. The film was a big hit. His other films were almost universally criticised, but almost all were profitable. Hal Wallis, the producer of nine of these films, declared: "A Presley film is the only certainty Hollywood knows." After seven years of no live performances, Elvis returned to the stage in 1968 in the television comeback special Elvis, which resulted in a long series of concerts in Las Vegas and a series of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley performed in the first satellite concert broadcast worldwide, Aloha from Hawaii. Long-term drug abuse ruined his health and he died in 1977 at the age of 42. He had one daughter Lisa Marie (1968). Presley is one of the best-selling solo artists in the history of the music industry with estimated sales of approximately 600 million records worldwide.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and German), and IMDb.
For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Dutch postcard by Takken, Utrecht, no. AX 3216. Photo: Paramount. Elvis Presley in Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957).
When The Beatles came to America in 1965 there was only one person they wanted to meet: Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Elvis had more multi-platinum album sales than any other performer, with twelve albums selling over 2 million copies.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1935. He moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee when he was 13 years old. His musical career began in 1953 when he recorded a song at the later Sun Studio that was released on Sam Phillips' Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley became an early populariser of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm-and-blues. The record company RCA Victor took over his contract in a deal prepared by Colonel Tom Parker, who would serve as the singer's manager for more than two decades. Presley's first single 'That's All Right' was released in July 1954. This was followed by 'Heartbreak Hotel', an American number one hit, in January 1956. After a series of successful television appearances and records that reached the top of the sales charts, he was regarded as rock 'n' roll's most prominent figure. His energetic interpretations of songs and sexually provocative stage performances, combined with a remarkably appealing fusion of multi-ethnic influences that coincided with the rise of the civil rights movement, made him at once immensely popular and controversial. The America of the immediate post-World War II period saw great economic growth, with young people having more to spend. Individual development gradually became more important and so a youth culture emerged with various subcultures that opposed the older generation. Presley was the embodiment of this and thus became the first pop idol. Elvis made his debut as an actor in the film Love Me Tender (Robert D. Webb, 1956). Although he was not at the top of the bill, the film's initial title, The Reno Brothers, was changed to capitalise on his last number one hit: 'Love Me Tender' had topped the charts earlier that month. To capitalise even more on Presley's popularity, four musical numbers were added to the original strict actor's role. Although critics cracked the film, it did well with filmgoers. Soon followed more films, including Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe, 1957) and King Creole (Michael Curtiz, 1958) with Carolyn Jones and Walter Matthau, In 1958, he was drafted into the army.
On 2 March 1960, Elvis Presley returned to the US and was given an honourable discharge with the rank of sergeant. The train taking him from New Jersey to Tennessee was stormed by a crowd the entire way. In Nashville, he recorded songs for a new album and the single 'Stuck on You', which quickly became a number one hit. Two weeks later, he recorded a pair of ballads that would become among his best-selling singles, 'It's Now or Never' and 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' In October, 'G.I. Blues' was a number one album. It was the soundtrack to Presley's first film since his return, G.I. Blues (Norman Taurog, 1960) with Juliet Prowse and Leticia Roman. On 25 March, another benefit concert took place in Hawaii, raising money for a memorial to the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was Presley's last public appearance for the next seven years. Colonel Parker had manoeuvred Presley into a busy schedule of making formulaic, modest-budget musical film comedies. Initially, Presley insisted on pursuing serious roles, but when two films of a more dramatic nature - the Western Flaming Star (Don Siegel, 1960) with Steve Forrest and Dolores Del Rio, and Wild in the Country (Philip Dunne, 1961) with Tuesday Weld - met with less commercial success, he resigned himself to the formula. Even among the 27 films, he made in the 1960s, there were still a few exceptions to the formula. In Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney, 1964) he met his perfect match in the stunningly beautiful Ann-Margreta who was a more independent-than-usual female co-star. The film was a big hit. His other films were almost universally criticised, but almost all were profitable. Hal Wallis, the producer of nine of these films, declared: "A Presley film is the only certainty Hollywood knows." After seven years of no live performances, Elvis returned to the stage in 1968 in the television comeback special Elvis, which resulted in a long series of concerts in Las Vegas and a series of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley performed in the first satellite concert broadcast worldwide, Aloha from Hawaii. Long-term drug abuse ruined his health and he died in 1977 at the age of 42. He had one daughter Lisa Marie (1968). Presley is one of the best-selling solo artists in the history of the music industry with estimated sales of approximately 600 million records worldwide.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and German), and IMDb.
For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Some of these are replacement dolls for ones that got lost or broken. The only one I'm missing now is Fashion Photo because I picked up Pink n Pretty at a flea market on 11/2.
To the fortune ones that know what love is
to all of you that , have someone ,that love
some one , be grateful because love is
one of the greatest gifts on this world
you cannot buy it , it has to be giving to you
and you have to take care of it , respect it
keep it safe .
For all of you that know what be love is
Take care of that person that is giving you that
show that person not only on Valentine's but every day ..
how much they mean to you
I tried to frame their whole bodies but I was too slow and clumsy so this is what I got (after a bit of cropping). I think it's a happy accident.
This brings to mind three things:
1. "One day...little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today." (M.L. King, and don't think I'm not aware of the banality of quoting something so significant in this context; I'm just reporting my thoughts here.)
2. "Hand in hand. No don't ask me to apologize, I won't ask you to forgive me. If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me." (Elvis Costello)
3. This article by Stephanie Rosenbloom called "A Show of Hands" from the NYT of 10/5/06, which you can no longer read online without subscribing:
ON a brisk autumn afternoon, in the shadow of the marble arch in Washington Square Park, a couple visiting from Ohio walked along holding hands like two teenagers going steady, decades after ''going steady'' went out of vogue.
When a stranger asked why they had chosen to join hands during their stroll, the man, Dave Findlay, looked at his wife of seven years and answered in a word: ''Connection.''
Or as the Beatles sang back in 1963: ''When I'll feel that something, I want to hold your hand.''
Those simple lyrics turned an expression of teenage longing and first romantic steps into a No. 1 hit. Yet today, when Justin Timberlake is at the top of the charts with ''SexyBack'' and the digital airwaves are filled with steamy lyrical declarations (''I'm into havin' sex, I ain't into makin' love'' sang 50 Cent in ''In da Club''), couples like Dave and Carey Findlay still intertwine fingers, kiss palms and link pinkies as they meander through parks, cross streets and snake through crowds.
''Hand-holding is the one aspect that's not been affected by the sexual revolution,'' said Dalton Conley, a professor and chairman of the department of sociology at New York University. ''It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.''
Nowadays hand-holding has attracted the interest of scientists who are studying its effects on the body and mind. And sexual health educators say it is a much-discussed topic among gay students who now publicly hold hands more than ever before but still must consider whether they want to declare their sexuality.
''I think it remains more important in an era of perhaps more liberal sexual norms,'' Dr. Conley said. ''It remains this thing to be doled out.''
To hold someone's hand is to offer them affection, protection or comfort. It is a way to communicate that you are off the market. Practically speaking, it is an efficient way to squeeze through a crowd without losing your partner. People do it during vigils, marches, weddings and funerals.
Usually it connotes something innocuous and sweet about a couple and their relationship. In rare instances, it takes on added potency, such as when President George W. Bush held the hand of Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Crawford, Tex., last year -- an act of respect and affection in Arab countries -- reminding some people of the film ''Fahrenheit 9/11,'' which depicted the Bush family's close business ties to Saudi leaders and which ignited conspiracy theories.
But, over all, few things are more innocent than a child grabbing the hand of a parent, for protection, direction and, as Mr. Findlay put it, connection. And with many children these days closer and more outwardly affectionate to their parents, chances are you have spotted a mother and her teenage daughter and perhaps even a father and his adolescent son ambling through a mall, scurrying through a crosswalk or strolling along, hand in hand.
Adult children and their elderly parents also hold hands, for balance, support and as a sign of love.
As for romantic couples, the opinions about hand-holding are as varied as fingerprints. But most people agree that it has merely changed, not lost favor.
''I think that for sure college students hold hands just like the old days,'' said Sandra L. Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine in Orono.
If they do, it is likely only after they are deep into a relationship -- not in those early days of budding romance, when a touch of hands was the first act of intimacy between a couple. That was the hand-holding that the Beatles wrote about. (Followed swiftly by the sexual revolution, whose equivalent anthem might be The Rolling Stones' ''Let's Spend the Night Together.'')
Among more than a half-dozen students at the University of Maine, there seemed to be two universal truths: that hand-holding is the least nauseating public display of affection and that holding hands has become more significant than other seemingly deeper expressions of love and romance.
''It is a lot more intimate to hold hands nowadays than to kiss,'' said Joel Kershner, 23. Because of that, he said, reaching for someone's hand these days has more potential for rejection than leaning in for a smooch at a party where alcohol is flowing.
Libby Tyler, 20, said it was ''weird that hand-holding is more serious,'' but true. ''It's something that you lead up to,'' she said.
There is nothing casual about it any more, said Rachel Peters, 22. ''Hand-holding is something that usually people do once they've confirmed they're a couple,'' she said.
But if that is not complicated enough, where you choose to hold hands also has meaning, the students said.
Drew Fitzherbert, 21, said that public hand-holding ''shows that commitment not only to you and your partner but everyone else in the community.''
Dr. Conley of N.Y.U. agreed. ''In the dark movie theater, in the dorm room, that's a very different social act,'' he said.
Are people holding hands as much as they once did? That's impossible to quantify. But Gregory T. Eells, the director of counseling and psychological services at Cornell University in Ithaca, said he didn't think so.
''I see more people on their cellphone than holding hands,'' he said, adding, ''To some extent we are trading real face-to-face relationships, where there's touch and body language, for electronic ones.''
Peter Shawn Bearman, a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, said that hand-holding in crowded cities like New York may simply be impractical.
''Maybe if the proportion of hand-holders has indeed gone down it has more to do with density (of humans) than the devaluing of hand-holding as a romantic signal,'' he wrote in an e-mail message.
Whatever degree of hand-holding may be happening, there are good reasons to cultivate the habit -- reasons would-be hand-graspers may wish to pass along to their hands-in-pockets partners.
''Based on what we've seen, when we get more physical intimacy we get better relationships, whether a mother and an infant or a couple,'' said Tiffany Field, the director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Even monkeys understand the importance of a hand squeeze every now and then. In ''Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals,'' Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University, wrote that some monkeys hold hands in reconciliation after a fight.
James Coan, an assistant professor of psychology and the neuroscience graduate program at the University of Virginia, has studied the impact of human touch, particularly how it affects the neural response to threatening situations, and said the results of a recent study were more dramatic than he expected.
''We found that holding the hand of really anyone, it made your brain work a little less hard in coping,'' Dr. Coan said, adding that any sort of hand-holding relaxes the body.
The study, which will be published this year in the journal Psychological Science, involved 16 couples who were rated happily married based on the answers in a detailed questionnaire. The wives were put inside an M.R.I. machine and were told they were to receive mild electric shocks to an ankle. Brain images showed that regions of the women's brains that had been activated in anticipation of pain and that were associated with negative emotions decreased when their husbands reachedinto the machine.
''With spouse hand-holding you also stop looking for other signs of danger and you start feeling more secure,'' said Dr. Coan, who led the study. ''If you're in a really strong relationship, you may be protected against pain and stress hormones that may have a damaging effect on your immune system.''
Perhaps it is why so many people crave it.
Blogs and online forums are rife with complaints of those who say their significant other does not want to hold hands. ''When we go out, we always have a blast, but the one thing that bothers me is that he never holds my hand in public,'' writes a woman on a ''love advice'' forum on www.lovingyou.com.
For older couples, letting go of hand-holding may be one more sign that they are pressed for time and too swamped for little acts of intimacy.
''When do we make time to hold hands?,'' said Dr. Eells of Cornell, talking about his own marriage of 15 years. ''Not very often.''
The couple is often busy shuttling children to and from school and extracurricular activities, not strolling through parks like characters in a Georges Seurat painting.
Sometimes, though, even errands provide opportunities. Recently, Dr. Eells said, he and his 9-year-old daughter were caught in a downpour after her cheerleading practice. The two grabbed hands and raced off into the rain together. When they finally splashed over to the car, the damp girl turned her face to her father. ''That was awesome,'' she sighed.