Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cuts the oppressive heat of the show's Memphis setting. Albee intertwines two seemingly unrelated plots: One plot perceives a hospital staff as microcosmic to the discussion of racism; the other tells the story of the singer Bessie Smith. The two collide only in the end, when Bessie's companion Jack crashes and Bessie dies. Her death is a result of inattention by two hospitals which turn the man away because of his color...
Mark Maccio of 448 Eastern Ave, Chelsea, was arrested on Sept. 20 at 10:30 a.m. after officers observed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the bench they were sitting at. When the officers returned, the defendant and his companion had fled, and when they were found and a stop was made and they were arrested. Maccio had a tin with heroin and a hypodermic syringe inside...
Even before the release of the Clinton videotape and its endless companion volumes, the prospect of an impeachment inquiry had become all but certain, and once the process happens, even Democratic elders predict, Clinton faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate. Now, they warn, the shape of the deal will be changing with each day that passes. He still has a chance of being sanctioned in exchange for immunity. But as this drags out, the price of immunity goes up, Republicans say. Already, the no-quarter wing...
...Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt Brace was forced to recheck the whole book after the scandal broke. "It's been vetted and vetted," she says. "The footnotes were double-checked." Let's hope that...
...trombone, instrument of military marches and patriotic small town parades, seems like an odd companion for a Cambridge summer night...