Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poetry, essays and autobiography were to roll from her typewriter. Anne Sullivan died in 1936 and Helen went on with Polly Thomson as her companion. Her house burned down and with it the manuscript of her book about Anne. The house was rebuilt, the book rewritten. The travels continued: to Asia, Africa and South America as well as throughout her own country...
Blind and deaf after a sudden illness at the age of 19 months, she later became, with the help of her childhood teacher and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person with these handicaps to acquire normal living and language skills...
...made David and Lisa) have done so by turning the gothic into the baroque. A little boy cannot be a symbol of innocence by himself; he must be playing a pipe like Pan. To give Merrill's mental anguish an exterior, a vanilla-colored, bikini-clad girl companion is added. To increase the audience's anguish, Merrill is made to out his hand on her stomach and quote The Song of Solomon: "Thy belly is like an heap of wheat." The line is difficult enough for any actor to recite, but Lancaster here, as in much...
...sculptures is what flummoxes gallery goers. If they follow his advice not to explore the work, they will shrug and leave. If, on the other hand, they ignore him and study the work, they will find it witty, ironic, subtly allusive. One lady collector recalls that, when her companion strolled toward one of Morris' grey Fiberglas doorshapes in a gallery, she suddenly felt compelled to call out "Stop." "I don't know why," she says, laughing nervously, "but it was almost like a man violating a woman." She has since bought a large Morris for her garden...
...story Pan Am Building, which was built five years ago with an 80-year air-rights lease that could bring the railroad a total of $100 million, stands atop Grand Central itself; last February, the newly merged Penn Central Railroad signed an even more lucrative agreement for a companion building that will rise above the terminal...