Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party committee in Ottawa's House of Commons two weeks ago tried to break the stalemate by suggesting the House pass both the accord and a "companion resolution" that would take account of the three provinces' objections...
There are plenty of men's rooms conveniently located on the Harvard campus which require neither formal dress nor a female companion for entrance...
Still, you should listen up about Longtime Companion. For it is a splendidly bitchy comedy, The Women crossed with The Big Chill. Also a soap opera, a horror movie and a how-to manual on coping with catastrophe. On a small budget, writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (who teamed just as productively on the Broadway comedy Prelude to a Kiss) have created a beguiling panorama. It spans the '80s, a decade that, for gay men and those who love them, took a fatal tailspin from high camp to tragedy. The film is a juggling act -- of characters, attitudes...
...Longtime Companion begins as a memoir of those heady days -- they may literally be called gay -- when everyone was strong and supple, when partying was a kind of performance art, when promiscuous sex was both a political declaration and a fashion statement. It is the summer of '81. Sean (Mark Lamos) and David (Bruce Davison), a middle-aged couple, watch a hunky guy stroll past them on a Fire Island beach, and their toes curl with wry pleasure. But a New York Times story about a newly discovered condition afflicting homosexual men has the gentle revelers wondering...
...What do you think happens when we die?" "We get to have sex again." Lucas and Rene know AIDS is not God's punishment for having sex, and their film is not afraid to show gay men being randily affectionate toward one another. But Longtime Companion represents no special pleading for gays; it is about any group of people who might get blindsided by a plague. Thanks to a terrific ensemble cast (including, in addition to the above, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker and Patrick Cassidy), these people are quirky, compassionate, plenty human. You are encouraged to laugh along with...