Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jury on the day her defense began. Weeping and straining for breath, she gave a horrifying account of her abduction by the S.L.A. from her apartment in Berkeley on Feb. 4, 1974. She said she was seized by William Harris, who was later to become her traveling companion, and Donald DeFreeze, the man known as "Cinque" and the self-styled field marshal of the group. A woman, Angela Atwood, held a pistol in her face. When Patty screamed, she was struck in the face with what she thought was a rifle butt, and she was bound, gagged and blindfolded...
Monk too recites an epic catalog. Earlier, before she's spirited away under the blue veil of "Familiar," "Death's" companion, Monk chortles like a witch...
...moment in Seven Beauties which epitomizes this harmony of vision and execution comes precisely when Wertmuller confronts her central theme: the moral and emotional impact of Nazi concentration camps on their victims. When Pasquale (Giancarlo Giannini) and his companion Francesco, deserters from the Italian army, are captured by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp, the greens and browns of the lush German countryside give way abruptly to stark grey and black. The camera pans chains of shell-shocked, pajama-clad prisoners, herded through this labyrinth of death by expressionless guards with drawn sub-machine guns and attack dogs...
...goddess of perfect wife and motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds. But the companion dies and instead of taking a body out of the pyramid, the narrator winds up throwing a body into it. There are no riches inside, and the only thing left...
...innocent lust for talk, food, sex, and a wife get him into all kinds of trouble; all he really wants is a woman, and he often gazes warmly into the audience, begging someone out there to be his mate and threatening suicide when no one complies. As Taminos's companion he is given a chance to endure the Trials, but he has neither the courage nor the reticence to keep his mouth shut and persevere--Tamino's technique of closing his eyes worked much better. When Papageno learns he will not be allowed to enter the Order, he merely shrugs...