Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Alice as his almost constant companion, Trillin samples country ham in Sulphur Well, Ky., savors andouille gumbo turned out by the Jaycees of Laplace, La., tastes the loup en cro*ute at Paul Bocuse's world-renowned restaurant in Lyons. Throughout all, the tongue-in-cheek Trillin philosophizes that "Marriage, as I have often remarked, is not merely sharing one's fettucine but sharing the burden of finding the fettucine restaurant in the first place...
...tried a new approach. Herring went to Attorney W. Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer?in addition to a fee of $1 million?if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...
...triggers, and one can only spare the odd suspicious thought for Colonel Rice (David Niven), who assists him in his investigation. But that leaves plenty of others: Bette Davis as a dowager with a taste for pearls of the sort the late-lamented sported; Maggie Smith as her nurse-companion...
...Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. His two half brothers were already grown when he was born, and Robin spent hours alone in the family's immense house, tape-recording television routines of comics and sneaking up to the attic to practice his imitations. "My imagination was my friend, my companion," he recalls...
After brief stints at Claremont Men's College and the College of Marin, he and his companion decided to become performers. Although his indignant father advised him to study welding so he would at least have a marketable skill, Robin won an acting scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With...