Word: companion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well, his disdain for long-run economic considerations among them. ("In the long run we are all dead," he wrote in 1923. He would make it to 1946, but we're all still here.) When there's an immediate crisis to battle, though, Keynes makes for a reassuring companion. While he is sometimes depicted by U.S. conservatives as a wild-eyed socialist, his actual mission in the 1930s was to save capitalism. Now that capitalism may need saving again, is it any wonder that we turn again to Keynes...
...serial-killer thrillers. But at its center are the heartache and heroic resolve of a woman who has lost the person she loves most and is determined to find him, dead or alive, against all obstacles the authorities place in her way. In that sense the movie is a companion piece to last year's A Mighty Heart, in which Jolie played the wife of kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl - except that Changeling is far more sprawling and twisty...
...been used, the quotes that had been lifted from official transcripts, and the artistic liberties that had been taken in dramatizing moments that never actually happened (turns out George W. Bush and his father never did have a fistfight in the Oval Office), the guide is a compelling companion piece to the film, suggesting that many of the behind-closed-doors moments in W. may not be that far-fetched after...
...right, Strauss-Kahn would escape the fate of former Bush Administration official Paul Wolfowitz, who was forced to resign his job as president of the World Bank in May 2007 after it was established that he had intervened to secure unmerited promotions and severance payments for his female companion, who also worked for the organization...
...Let’s vamoose!” his companion interrupted, pulling him toward the exit...