Word: companionable
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...Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare - macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts - served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing...
...state to consider dietary laws that discriminate on the basis of cross-species friendship. The sale of dog meat is already illegal in seven states and environmentalists in Hawaii are working hard to add another to the list. Legally, dogs are honored with the category of “companion animal,” presumably because they are considered cute, fluffy, and generally useful—if you happen to have lost a Frisbee...
Mao’s famous “Little Red Book” now has a popular companion sitting on many bookshelves across China...
...says Streep, laughing to herself. “It’s bravado directing.” Of course, some themes intentionally make the final cut of “A Prairie Home Companion.” A persistent carpe-diem message pervades the film; characters learn not to focus on the past—“there is no silence in radio,” one points out—and that in the future lingers uncertainly. At the same time, the audience sympathizes with the outdated variety show, and its closing, the end of an era, implies...
Instead, the film’s minimal plot centers on the alternately tense and tender relationship between Jones and Thorogood. Thorogood is the central figure of the last phase of Jones’ life: his constant companion, a witness to the unraveling that led to his split with the band, and possibly his killer...