Word: companioner
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...effects of parenthood Frankenstein is littered with parentless children, like Shelley herself, whose mother died shortly after her birth. The monster's wrath stems from the refusal of the man he calls his father to acknowledge his offspring, or to provide for his spiritual comfort by creating a companion like him. The monster who grows under these circumstances has great capacities both for good and evil, presumably like all children at their birth. He is well-educated and seeks human companionship, but his rejection by the human race makes it the object of his wrath and vengence...
...book, For Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs," she notes in the introduction to For Keeps. "I think I have...
Male Student (leaning over towards his female companion for the night in what promises to be an awkward kiss): "You're not like the other 'Cliffies...
...heat of the Cold War, just as General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has manipulated routine Air Force procedures into a full preemptive strike on the Soviet Union. The general is the kind of man who carries a machine gun and artillery belt in his golf bag. His companion in his final hour is Captain Mandrake, a young Peter Sellers in the role of a British officer at the mercy of commie-phobic Yanks...
...hero making their relationship seem all the more Freudian. One touching moment comes when Sainte Colombe and his two daughters are giving a recital and Madeline, the oldest girl, eagerly tries to make her father smile while he maintains his mask-like grimace. As a patriarch, teacher and companion, Marielle's Sainte Colombe is a stolid and laconic figure, and it is only through listening to his sounds (played by Jordi Savall), the cries and tears made by his viola, that we get to know...