Word: companion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heart attack leaves you feeling that your oldest friend has committed treachery. The body, the now corrupted companion of your youth, has lost its mind and violently assaulted...
...always that way in the beginning: all promise, potential, fun. The drug is like a companion telling you that you're good enough, handsome enough and smart enough, banishing all the little insecurities to your subconscious. And you bid them good riddance, because in your giddiness you feel liberated from those self-doubts?never mind that they are there for a reason, to remind you that you are vulnerable, that you are human. You feel totally, completely alive...
...Harvard graduate student walking with a companion along the path Wednesday around 8 p.m. was approached by three black males, aged 16 to 18 years old, wearing dark puffy jackets...
Last week's giant was the most unexpected discovery yet. Conventional theory suggests that it must have formed like a star, from a collapsing cloud of interstellar gas. Its smaller companion, only seven times Jupiter's mass, is almost certainly a planet, formed by the buildup of gas and dust left over from a star's formation. Yet the fact that these two orbs are so close together suggests to some theorists that they must have formed together--so maybe the bigger one is a planet after...
...many people believe that. Fresh evidence to the contrary can now be found in Call If You Need Me (Vintage; 300 pages; $13), a gathering of the author's previously uncollected nonfiction, plus five unpublished short stories. Three of them were found by the poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion for the last decade of his life and wife for his last few months, in the home they shared at Port Angeles, Wash.; the other two turned up among Carver's papers at Ohio State University. In a foreword, Gallagher notes that she had reservations about making public stories that...