Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other stock Medieval types. Everyone in this play is truly outstanding, and Watson himself, as the director, must be credited with inciting the histrionics and natural energy necessary to hold the audience members' attention as they sit sipping coffee, contemplating a 10-page paper or chatting with their dining companion...
...even read the flyers they handed out. It hardly matters, he explains, because he knew what was meant--sort of. In fact, his politics are so ill formed, so much a product of simple adolescent rebellion, that he might have endorsed any radical cause. His alternately amused and annoyed companion is, it turns out, the author of the leaflets, an Oxbridge-educated scion of a prominent family who has joined the opposition. He admits that his people are ignorant, that his country does not feel like home. Even so, he felt honor bound to come back and fight...
...France's most controversial contemporary philosopher and the woman who was to become its most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright. "The conversation was most agreeable," said Jean-Paul Sartre. Last week, nearly six years after Sartre's death, his longtime companion Simone de Beauvoir, 78, died of a lung ailment. The next day Jean Genet, 75, succumbed to throat ! cancer. Said Premier Jacques Chirac, inarguably...
ALEC GUINNESS MADE a career of bringing dignity to mediocrity. Although a contemporary and a rightful companion of the great British actors of this century, no one ever seems to mention Sir Alec in their company. Certainly he doesn't lack exposure-Guinness made more films than any of them with the exception of Lord Lawrence Olivier, who these days will take any part that doesn't require him to move much--but his unique talents by their very nature doom him to relative obscurity...
...Friday, a bomb exploded in a West Berlin nightclub, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and his companion and injuring nearly 200 people, some of them American military personnel...