Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swept by panics, smothered by doubts and fears, and her death had been long in coming. Twenty years ago, when she was a warmly shopworn 16, she had first tried to kill herself. Guilt became her constant companion and she broke promises and contracts and friendships to seek it out. She felt pulled and taunted and cheated, but when she spoke of what troubled her, her thoughts always resolved themselves so innocently that she seemed more frolicsome than frightened. "I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual," she would say. And her brow would furrow...
...deeply excited Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor) that merely to look at them was ecstasy. She lost her heart to one at twelve, when she first saw a neighbor's fierce new gelding running majestically through a meadow. Without quite realizing it, she also lost her heart to her companion that memorable day, a hard little tramp of 17 (Mickey Rooney), He stayed on in the village to work in her father's butcher shop...
...LIVE in Paris for months without noticing the local phenomenon, since women with male companions are left respect fully alone. Women who have had the temerity to try to travel as if they were ordinary people, like men, quickly grow thick-skinned. They commiserate in shorthand: "It's worse in Rome." "At least you're not blonde." They occasionally long for a male companion or a large styrofoam dummy of one. Guidebooks, including the one put out by Harvard Student Agencies, warn them in passing that it's hopeless to get mad at an entire culture. They are rarely...
...didn't run very far and I didn't run very long Naturally, however, it was exciting," he says. Adds a companion who observed the event. "He may not have run far, but he certainly ran fast...
...once said something which put everything into perspective for me from that moment on: "You go to the grave alone." A cliche, certainly. But said in the right way, at the right time, and by the right person, this meat-and-potatoes statement has since served as my best companion during times when I've been obsessed with the opinions of others or afraid to take a chance at something for fear of failure. The most useful insight of my life, which was also the most obvious, came from a 20-year-old girl who rarely read, whose chain smoking...