Word: companioner
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...sheer mass of Baby Clementine and Otto the Puppy photographs was threatening to swallow the Quittner household. Our refrigerator was already covered with images of the shiny-faced dictator and her sock-eating companion. Would the microwave disappear next? Would our home explode in an updraft of glossy prints and curly brown negatives? I needed to move my clan to the clean, neatly organized world of digital photos. The trick was to do it cheaply...
Flockhart returns later in the evening as one of a pair of college sweethearts (along with Paul Rudd) describing a weekend jaunt to New York City that ends in a brutal homophobic attack. In between, Ron Eldard plays a salesman who confesses to an unseen companion in a hotel room yet another incomprehensible deed. Flockhart sits that one out. But really, is this any way for Ally McBeal to spend her summer vacation...
...there he was in full birthday mode last week, munching a Morton's roast-beef sandwich after tumbling wildly through 5,000 feet of Texas sky. He was so blissful up there, he missed his skydiving instructor Glenn Bangs' signal to pull his rip cord. (Bush's other parachuting companion, Andy Serrano, pulled it.) "What a high!" he laughed as his promise to Barbara not to jump again slipped away with each memory of touching the clouds in free fall...
...miraculous as learning language may seem, that achievement of Keller's belongs to the 19th century. It was also a co-production with her patient and persevering teacher, Anne Sullivan. Helen Keller's greater achievement came after Sullivan, her companion and protector, died in 1936. Keller would live 32 more years and in that time would prove that the disabled can be independent. I hate the word handicapped. Keller would too. We are people with inconveniences. We're not charity cases. She was once asked how disabled veterans of World War II should be treated and said that they...
...work for the blind," she wrote, "has never occupied a center in my personality. My sympathies are with all who struggle for justice." She was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality. She once said, "I think God made woman foolish so that she might be a suitable companion to man." She had such left-leaning opinions that the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover kept a file on her. And who were her choices for the most important people of the century? Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin and Lenin. Furthermore, she did not think appearing on the vaudeville circuit, showing...