Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abroad. Posed with barnyard animals or buxom nudes, Blue Dog is a captivating and mysterious mutt who stares out at readers with zonky yellow eyes. Did someone put hashish in her biscuits? No. As B.D. "explains," she is the cerulean ghost of the artist's departed four- legged companion Tiffany, now channeled back to inhabit her beloved master's work. Old timey with a New Age angle, this Bayou bowwow should get a good run for your money...
...ever ready to burst into tears at the folly and wonder of men. Scott Handy is Orlando, properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...
...Oscar night they all may be applauding Foster. In Nell the two-time winner (for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs) plays a North Carolina woodswoman who has grown up utterly isolated from the outside world. Now her only companion, her mother, has died, and Nell is a rich woman -- but still barely a girl. She speaks her own dialect, recoiling from the doctor (Liam Neeson) and the psychologist (Natasha Richardson) who would help her, use her, perhaps destroy her, and who will be forever touched by her innocent sorcery...
...publicly introspective person," observes Stengel. "He'll tell you what he thinks, but not how he feels." At such impasses, Stengel needed all his journalistic prowess. "Rick has a tremendously keen eye for detail and the telling anecdote," says executive editor Jim Kelly. "He'd be the ideal companion to sit with someone and persuade them to describe scenes and encounters in the liveliest way possible...
...turned out, Stengel found an ideal companion of his own during his South African sojourn: he met and fell in love with Johannesburg photojournalist Mary Pfaff, whom he married last month...