Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season to be joyful, and joy is out in full force in bookstores this year. The perennial favorite The Joy of Sex decks the book stalls, together with its gleeful companion volume, More Joy of Sex. Chaster readers may prefer Joy of Cheesecake, or Joy of Photography with its predictably titled sequel (you guessed it) More Joy of Photography. And could any kitchen be complete withoutJoy of Cooking, cookbook cum encyclopedia--America's answer to Larousse Gastronomique...
...amateur interest." That is about as far as the pieces take us. We have the fact of his terrible eyesight, which might explain his fiendishness on the tennis court, and we have one instance of his sense of humor, when he urged a cognac on a reluctant dinner companion, telling him, "You'd better accept. The KGB has a very long arm." Oh, yes, he is said to speak fluent English, although this was called into question by his use of an interpreter when he conferred with Vice President Bush. Either Mr. Andropov's fluency is exaggerated...
...lined with old theatrical prints, he enters his study, a warm and comfortable room, and slowly settles onto a couch, elevating his legs to minimize the effects of phlebitis. A portrait of a pretty dark-haired woman hangs on one wall; that is Joan Plowright, his third wife and companion of 21 years, painted when she was playing Masha in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which Olivier directed. Next to one of the windows is a huge picture of a young man dressed in Romeo's tights. He is impossibly handsome, with a long-lashed, almost feminine beauty...
...saga of a colorful, wealthy family whose lives are all centered beneath one gilded roof-the handsome and dashing young Prince Andrew, 22, had cut short his Caribbean vacation with fetching onetime Porn Starlet Koo Stark, 25, in hopes of stilling the wicked quills of gossip. Alas. An opportunistic companion on the trip, Elizabeth...
...Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more), to be bound in pigskin into a special limited edition of his novella Brother Pig. The assignment carries with it an all-expenses-paid two-week working holiday in the Caribbean with the companion of Bech's choice, who will pull each sheet from under his busy pen. Bech brings along Norma, the reliable mistress whom he will never marry; the two of them have settled into "a limbo of heterosexual palship haunted by silently howling abandoned hopes." As the tense sojourn drags...