Word: chumming
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...your article "Here Come the Robots" [March 7], Computer Journalist Carl Helmers stated, "These robots will be perceived as companions, like dogs or cats." Anybody who thinks a robot can be a chum, equal to a dog or a cat, is more a mass of shorted circuits than he is human...
...course, he should have known better. Jerry is not only his college chum and a literary agent with whom Robert, a publisher, has done much mutually profitable business. He has also been Robert's habitual squash partner, but lately he has been avoiding the courts. Obviously any man who treats the rituals of male bonding in such a cavalier fashion is capable of anything...
...otherwise much of a culinary performer, has been brewing the au naturel dressing in his Connecticut cave for years and giving the bottles away as Christmas gifts. With a pinch of immodesty, he says he became "a prisoner of my own excellence." With the help of his chum A.E. Hotchner, 62, whose concoctions are usually literary (Papa Heming way), the actor is marketing the dressing in supermarkets around the country. The bottle, adorned with Newman's visage and the glint of his Iceberg-blue eyes, is priced between $1.19 and $1.39. The profits, if any (some critics...
...minor characters were as memorable as the major ones. Beaver's sidekick Larry Mondello looked and acted like a pint-size W.C. Fields. Wally's chum Lumpy Rutherford was just that. And of course there was the incomparable Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond). If Mayfield was Eden, Eddie was the serpent slyly tempting Beaver to bite the apple of mischief. A leering skull dressed in a cardigan sweater, Eddie was smarmy to his elders and sneering to his peers. "Hey, Wally, if your gunky brother comes with us, I'm gonna Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just...
Chief Justice Warren Burger and Associate Justice Harry Blackmun. The label was attached to the pair during the 1970-71 term, when Blackmun, newly arrived on the Supreme Court, voted more than 90% of the time with Burger, his fellow Minnesotan and childhood chum. Now come the Arizona Twins. In 48 of 52 written opinions this term, former Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Sandra Day O'Connor has sided with her Stanford Law School classmate, one-time Phoenix Lawyer William Rehnquist. The latest evidence of the like-mindedness of O'Connor and the high bench's leading...