Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year ago, when ELTON JOHN's live-in companion, former ad exec David Furnish, began shooting a biography of the superstar rocker, no one expected much in the way of candor. After all, John was paying for the shoot and, having been burned in the past by stories of drug abuse, was acutely aware of the value of image control. This week the finished film, Tantrums and Tiaras, premieres in Britain and turns out to be far from a whitewash. Furnish's work documents a tantrum or two as it follows the rocker backstage, in his private jet and around...
Louis Farrakhan is America's most outspoken and unrepentant bigot. He is the constant companion of murderous dictators who rule terrorist, anti-American regimes, and is the head of a vast business empire whose dealings should be closely scrutinized for ethical correctness. The media have utterly abdicated their watchdog role in regard to Farrakhan and have granted him a wholly undeserved mantle of respectability. For evil to occur it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. When evil also gets good p.r., it's tough to beat. PETER T. KING, U.S. Representative 3rd District, New York Washington
...when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey was his only traveling companion, and the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags. Once in the White House, Clinton put him in charge of personnel, but his range has always been unlimited...
...digging cheerfully just now into her between-workouts morning diet supplement of--yes, cholesterol enthusiasts--hash-brown potatoes. And a fried egg, over easy. And a couple of griddle cakes, each the size of a catcher's mitt. All of which will jiggle around the middle of her breakfast companion, who's having the same. But in the white-hot furnace that drives Janet Evans, it will burn to ash well before her three hours of afternoon tank time are finished and her daily weight-room session begins...
...figured it would be a great plan--Alex would sit still for two hours, watching Carey twist his face, contort his body and lower our IQs as we watched. Instead I sat through the movie hoping to god my youthful companion wasn't figuring out what was going...