Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pronounced Bon Brannock. She is the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, a 500-page meditation to help women find fulfillment by appreciating what they already have. It has been on the best-seller list for 70 weeks, with 2.2 million copies in print. (A companion journal zoomed onto best-seller lists last month--an astonishing feat for a virtually blank book.) Simple Abundance's entry for this day is "The Home as a Hobby," in which she suggests that cleaning out the basement for an art studio, if seen as a pastime, would...
...later years, Burroughs moved to Kansas with secretary and companion James Grauerholz and began writing more conventional narratives. He also dabbled in the visual arts and appeared in several films including "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Twister" as well as a Nike commercial...
...case, there was private elation at the news of Cunanan's death in La Jolla among the rich, closeted gay men for whom respectability requires a veneer of heterosexuality. Here Cunanan had lived with businessman and arts patron Norman Blachford. Before Blachford, Cunanan had been known as the companion to two other local "benefactors"--one of whom was reportedly so nervous that Cunanan would name names if apprehended that he considered suicide himself...
...press had a personality. It wheezed and groaned and squeaked and thumped and sprayed. Actually there were five presses over the century of the Free Press, but in most minds they are all one, each rising out of the one before. My companion and teacher was No. 3, a flatbed machine of such weight and exuberant horsepower that it ultimately cracked the brick walls of the building. On stifling summer nights in the Depression and the war years, with all the windows open, the thudding of that press could be heard up and down the alleys and street. The people...
...Donatella who persuaded Versace to visit her in 1991 in her favorite new sunbathing spot, Miami Beach. On his way to Cuba with his longtime companion Antonio D'Amico, he obliged his sister with a stop at the Hotel Fontainebleau, where she was vacationing with her husband Paul Beck, a former Versace model, and the couple's two children, Allegra and Daniel. The designer hired a driver to show him around the area, and he wound up in the then not yet trendy section of South Beach. "I sat in a bar and started to look around at the people...