Word: companion
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JANET JACKSON was always supposed to be the normal one, but then everything is relative. After years of denying she and companion RENE ELIZONDO were, in fact, married, Jackson, 33, was served with divorce papers in Los Angeles last week. Turns out the couple got hitched in a 1991 ceremony at their San Diego vacation home, but according to Elizondo, 37, they kept it secret from almost everyone because "some of the public figures that announce their marriage seem to dissolve quickly." Jackson and Elizondo announced an amicable parting in February 1999, but the divorce papers could signal a less...
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...Platonic friendship: the younger, with physical beauty (nature's kiss), and the elder, with a developed life of the mind, conjoining in a discourse for their mutual pleasure. I am told that Bloom had these same, intense, friendships and was fascinated by male companionship in general. Ravelstein's own companion, a forty-years younger Chinese intellectual named Nikki, is fiercely devoted to him. And yet there are hints that Ravelstein couldn't live up to the Greek ideal-him, the mature erastes, doting on his loving, ephebic eromenae and enjoying their beauty...
...perhaps be reckoned by the quizzical expression on the face of the graying man in the conservative suit examining the exhibition. He stood watching one of two video monitors displaying excerpts from Kawakubo's most recent runway showings, in which the models distinctly lurked rather than strutted. His female companion fervently explained how Rei shreds fabric to create her massive ruffles and pointed out the highlights from the spring shows. His only response was a head-shaking and a throaty chuckle. "So the punk look is back...
...Beowulf but a course I took whose name I remember as English Poets of the 17th Century, Not Including Any Poet You've Ever Heard Of. In any case, it is definitely not true that I used to think Beowulf was a story about a wolf--a sort of companion piece to The Lion King or Bambi...