Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone will tell you who has seen the summer's newest horror film, An American Werewolf in London: avoid both. The American college student who is hacked to death by one of the beasts is thereafter seen wandering around in various states of stomach-churning decomposition. But his companion, who survives the attack, has it just as bad. Every time there is a full moon, he becomes a werewolf himself, his hands turning into claws and his teeth into fangs. All this seems to happen on-camera without a second's fadeout for the actor to jump into...
...ever indicated that the professor and the flower girl would wind up in a clinch, but the possibility, which gave the story much of its electricity, was always there. That charge is what is lacking from the new production. Harrison's Higgins is urbane and amusing, a rare companion despite himself, but he is not a possible mate for Eliza Doolittle, who could well be his granddaughter. Indeed, he is lucky that he could find an actress old enough to play his own mother-the inimitable Cathleen Nesbitt, who was also in the original cast...
...death." The next year Brandt announced his intention to divorce his wife of 31 years. With his drinking under control, today Brandt's buoyant step and year-round tan symbolize the dramatic change in his lifestyle. He is happily ensconced in a penthouse near Bonn. His close companion is Brigitte Seebacher, a young party activist who insists that he exercise daily and maintain his diet, and who takes him to her own hairdresser. Brandt affectionately calls Seebacher "my watchdog...
...student magazine. He has correlated thousands of comments in order to gauge just how evocative each picture is and how strong the response to it. Of the prints, the blue swimmer stirred the most emphatic responses and the largest number of positive reactions: "lightness and freedom," "a loving, warm companion." But one woman felt frighteningly "submerged." Viewers found the greenish abstraction disturbing or threatening, calling it "demonic" or "evil." One even described it as "death reflected in a pool...
Meeting him in a public park, Alejandra chooses Martín as a companion for reasons that he never quite fathoms. She is erratic, tempestuous, given to long, unexplained absences and indifferent to Martín's growing passion and love. She takes him to the crumbling family home, populated now by a few aging relatives in varying stages of derangement. She suffers what appears to be an epileptic fit, recovers and falls asleep. Martín watches and realizes that he cannot save her: "It was as if the prince ... had at last found himself before the cavern...