Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To Diana Rigg, 38, auburn-haired Shakespearean actress best known as the karate-chopping counterspy in TV's The Avengers, and Archie Stirling, 35, a businessman and her companion for a year: their first child, a girl; in London...
Jody soon became Carter's constant companion, crisscrossing dreary, dusty stretches of Georgia in search of voters. Familiarity bred candor. Jody began sending Carter notes almost every day suggesting what the candidate was doing wrong. Jimmy bristled at first, then began paying closer attention: Jody was often right. "Jimmy doesn't like to be hit head-on with something," says a White House insider. "Jody is a master at approaching from oblique angles...
...expect, it was apparently the end of a marriage that began as Canada's storybook romance. When the pair first met in 1967 on the Polynesian island of Moorea, Pierre, then Canada's Justice Minister, was a dashing, wealthy, bilingual bachelor of 48 and the occasional companion of Barbra Streisand. Margaret, then 19, was the beautiful, free-spirited daughter of a British Columbia industrialist and former Canadian Cabinet member, James Sinclair. Canadians learned of the couple's ultra-private wedding ceremony in March 1971, three years after Trudeau was elected Prime Minister for the first time...
...1930s. Molly Tredley (Christina Pickles) is a fortyish woman with a frustrated and gnawing need for sex. Her husband Teddy (Michael Higgins), some 20 years her senior, is irascible, quite deaf and has always been impotent. His comforts are booze and the bantering palship of a spinster nurse-companion, Eve (Pauline Flanagan...
...hello there, son," he said, sidling up to the bar with the obvious desire of buttonholing me for a drink. Having read "The Last Hurrah" I was well aware that any defensive maneuver short of armed resistance was useless, so I gave in and ordered a round. My companion smiled and said "God bless you"--Irish drunks are the only people in the world who say "God bless you" when you haven't sneezed--and then began the Inquisition...