Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adele F. Grignon '97, DeBalman's companion in the line and a transfer from Tufts University, said she too was surprised by the long line...
...here are Burns and co-writer Geoffrey C. Ward, in the elegiac introduction to the series (as well as to the hefty companion book being issued simultaneously by Knopf): "At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that often manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to fathers and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners...
...radio hot spot, caused by a jet of subatomic particles spewing from the object at nearly the speed of light. (Because of its angle, the jet gives the illusion of moving faster than light, a physical impossibility.) The jet presumably comes from gas falling from an orbiting companion star into a black hole that weighs as much as a handful of stars. Typical quasars, in contrast, emanate from something with the mass of a million stars or more. Unfortunately, galactic dust largely hides the mini-quasar, so there is a limit to how much astronomers will be able to learn...
...companion in blondness is Aaron Zelman as Freddy Fellowes, a well-meaning method actor who can only be described as dumb. Zelman compels mention of the film version of "Noises Off." His characterization of Freddy is unmistakably like Christopher Reeves' in the same role. Freddy craves motivation for his every movement on stage, prompting Lloyd into a deadpan Freudian probe of Freddy's character's relationship with groceries...
...Light returns from the hereafter with the news that "all experiences can be positive." In my local bookstore, the Death and Dying section is right next to Recovery and Affirmations, and the titles themselves sound like holiday brochures: Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, Heading Toward Omega, Companion Through Darkness...