Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next victim of the Harvard Lampoon's notorious parodies will be the software industry, when six of the magazine's staff members create a computer software package and companion book for the publishing company Simon and Schuster...
...coming?) Superman in a plane. Christopher Reeve, 32, who soared to fame as the Man of Steel, is starring next in The Aviator as a rugged, '20s mail pilot. His plane crashes, and Reeve is marooned on a mountain with the companion able Rosanna Arquette. Reeve, an experienced pilot who has soloed across the Atlantic, did all his own flying in the film, a claim he cannot make about his earlier aerial incarnation...
...this illusory compact is shattered in 1781, when Mozart arrives at the court of Emperor Joseph II. The older musician is at once disgusted by Mozart, who seems a spoiled self-important adolescent. When Mozart chase a giggly female companion into a room where Salieri is sneaking pastries, Italian composer inadvertently overhears the two exchange infantile jokes. "Say 'say I'm sick backwards," the musical prodigy insists, his words punctuated by an obnoxious high pitched giggle...
...Soviet-led boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Faces visibly dropped as news of the canceled visit passed down a line of pensioners waiting at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing in East Berlin. "Have you heard?" said one elderly woman. "The trip is off." Holding back tears, her companion replied, "I knew it." Reacting later, an outspoken young East German writer offered a more bitter assessment: "Honecker has bowed to Soviet pressure again." Explained a Western official in the East German capital: "There is almost nothing more important in East Germany than contacts between East and West. The postponement...
...North Carolina joins at least eleven other states. One of the first was Minnesota, whose supreme court ruled it out in 1980. In that case a woman under hypnosis, who at the time of the event was apparently drunk and confused, summoned up a scene in which a male companion sexually assaulted her with a knife. Under hypnosis she recalled too much, including several incidents that could not have happened. In throwing out a rape conviction in 1983, New York's highest court declared that hypnosis created "a mixture of accurate recall, fantasy or pure fabrication in unknown quantities...