Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: What's the good word? It can be found in the new fifth edition of this classic desk companion...
Late last year Woody Allen made history. The epochal event was not his affair with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, an adopted daughter of Allen's companion Mia Farrow. That sort of escapade is common enough in the long, tawdry life of this planet. But on Dec. 17, 1991, in the Surrogate Court of the State of New York in Manhattan, Allen became a separate but equal adoptive parent of Moses and Dylan Farrow, whom Mia had previously adopted. Each adult was given parental rights. Never before in New York, and perhaps in the U.S., had an unmarried couple been allowed...
...character remains curiously weightless and remote. His relationship with Elaine -- once romantic, now platonic -- works only because it avoids all the tough questions. A viewer can relate to Seinfeld in all the little ways but none of the big ones. Which makes him a good once-a-week companion -- but probably not a guy you'd want to help move...
Dershowitz said that a situation in which a 56 year old man was having sex with the daughter of his longtime 46 year old companion was very "upsetting." And although it might be an acceptable story for film, he said, "life should not limitate...
...naturally and comfortably from his lips that . . . I listened as one who receives a revelation." Beyond fueling a lively debate among Twain scholars, Fishkin's thesis may help vindicate teachers who have been criticized for using the book on the ground that its portrayal of Huck's constant companion Jim, whom Huck calls a "nigger," is racist...