Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soldier from the Viet Nam War in Arlington National Cemetery, beside the Unknowns from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. In November the stark black granite slashes that form the Viet Nam Memorial near the edge of the Mall in Washington got a more traditional companion piece: a statue of three American soldiers holding their weapons in various attitudes of exhaustion. The memorial is now the most visited monument in the capital. These ceremonies at last served to convey legitimacy on those who fought the war, if not upon the war itself, and thereby accomplished...
...cricket of a man, hopping to some music only the brilliant Alec Guinness can hear. As Fielding busies himself with Aziz's defense, Godbole's comment is merely "You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same." The other is Mrs. Moore, Adela's traveling companion, almost comically regal at some moments, uncannily vulnerable in others, but always touched by mystery as Peggy Ashcroft delicately plays her. Mrs. Moore enters only one cave, then reels out of it, having confronted her own mortality. Later, when people try to draw her back into the muddle to testify...
ENGAGED. Elizabeth Taylor, 52, violet-eyed veteran of stage, screen and marital campaigns, including two spectacularly publicized ones with the late Richard Burton; and Dennis Stein, 52, entrepreneur, man-about-New York City and her steady companion since they met a month ago, reportedly on a blind date; she for the eighth time (she is once widowed and six times divorced, most recently from Virginia Senator John Warner in 1982), he for the second; in Los Angeles...
...came to Boston, so we thought we would come over and have a tour," says Marguerite Smith of Greeley, Col.Mrs.Seth Fisher of Villanova, Pa., agrees that Harvard is an obligatory part of a tour of Boston. Her companion, Diane Myers of Medford, N. J., adds that "Harvard is very historical...
...recently told a group of journalists that she is the living actress "I admire most in the movies." But despite their leader's enthusiasm, Italian audiences and critics have had a more mixed reaction to the star's latest film, Claretta, directed by Cardinale's constant companion, Pasquale Squitieri. The comely Cardinale plays Mussolini's mistress, and some think the movie is too soft on II Duce. "The film is not about Mussolini," counters Producer Giacomo Pezzali. "It is about Claretta Petacci and her family. We've concentrated on the love story between Claretta...