Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defeated seven opponents with 39% of the vote, was the only G.O.P. candidate with statewide experience. Said she: "This is an opportunity to tell that what we have in Nebraska are open-minded people." The women will vie for the job now held by Bob Kerrey, 42, former companion of Actress Debra Winger; he is resigning after one term to pursue a future "different from being an elected politician...
When the rains kept falling, the legislature went beyond prayer. Last week it approved a $72 million plan to pump water from the lake to the barren west desert, creating a 2.5-ft.-deep, 500-sq.-mi. companion lake...
...counter compliments Molly on her Paleolithic do and watches her try on a pair of suede lace-up granny shoes. $49, and out she strides, in her late-for-the-train gait, past two punked-out teens. "That was Molly Ringwald!" one insists. "No, it wasn't," her elder companion sighs. "It was just one of those people dressed up like...
That is the beauty of analog. Because -- like its linguistic companion, the analogy -- it tries to reproduce the contour of reality. It lives in context. There is a before and an after. The digital watch gives you precision, but leaves you wondering where you are. Analog is a return to a certain harmony that the digital world chops away. Thus analog is able to capture qualities that digital never will. Only the LP, concludes Rothstein after truly heroic experimentation, can convey, say, the piano's quality of "attack and decay...
...plagiarism suit involving her best-selling book Passages. Spirit of Survival is practically all Sheehy, and that is an even bigger problem. Her effort to popularize a psychology of survival is hopelessly muddled by her need to dramatize herself. Sheehy, a middle-aged single mother and the companion of Magazine Editor Clay Felker, jets off to Thailand to write a story about Cambodian child refugees. There she meets Phat Mohm, 12, an orphaned survivor of Pol Pot's death marches and work camps. Arrangements are made to bring Mohm to the U.S., where she lives with Sheehy, learns...