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Word: companionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in real life, the man sounded witty and suave. According to "Halliwell's Filmgoer's and video Viewer's Companion," "When a journalist wired his agent, 'How old Cary Grant?', Grant himself replied: 'Old Cary Grant fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Catch a Movie Star | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...dazzling portrait of a dowager, whom she plays both in full command of her gilded domain and at the breaking point of senile decay. Marian Seldes, who won a 1967 Tony Award in Albee's A Delicate Balance, has never been better as a protective but peevish nurse- companion in the first act and the dowager herself in the second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks gorgeous but hasn't a clue what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albee Is Back | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...only it had ended there. But now, every day, new permutations come flying in the door. If I go first class to Paris, I can bring a companion along free -- so long as she has the same itinerary. Having the same itinerary will probably mean the end of our friendship, but the offer does ensure that if I spend $6,846 on a ticket that would otherwise cost $768, I can get another ticket (for which I would have had to pay $768) for nothing. If I make five round trips to Taipei, a city I have always tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...living room a junior mogul was touting his new projects, among them a pirate epic and a film he described as an "Animal House for the '90s." "Hey, it's product line," his companion said sympathetically. "They can't all be gems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Redford's Mountain | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Also available for love-Iron academics are such useful anthologies as The Literary Companion to Sex. This sexy volume includes excerpts from Sappho, the Kama Sutra, and everyone's sensual favorite, the Talmud...

Author: By Elizabeth Mayer, | Title: NO RIPPING BODICES | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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