Word: companioner
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Eight o'clock in the evening is a slow, sullen hour in Sin City, a.k.a. Lost Wages. "I'm tired," whines a member of the United States Twirling Association. "C'mon, we're supposed to be having fun," snaps her companion, a clone. In razor-crease jeans and stiletto heels they stamp into the ladies' room, flounce around the corner past the polished washbasins and disappear into the two long rows of toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have...
...foot less than he could have done, it was almost a foot more than he had to do. Stopping was good track and bad theater: some of the $60 customers, not including Bob Beamon, booed. "My friend lives," murmured Beamon, referring to a 29-ft. 2½-in. companion of his, a record now 16 years...
When embarking on foreign vacations, a generation of U.S. tourists could look to the mighty dollar as a generous and supportive traveling companion. For the first two decades of the postwar years, highly favorable exchange rates made vacationing abroad, particularly in Europe, a bargain that more and more Americans could not resist. Then in the late '60s and into the '70s, the growing strength of foreign economies and a weakening dollar sent prices skyhigh, transforming the trip abroad into an expensive, even prohibitive luxury...
BORN. To Nastassja Kinski, 23, sultry international film star (The Hotel New Hampshire, Cat People), and Ibrahim Moussa, 37, Egyptian-born film producer, her former agent and her live-in companion since last fall: their first child, a son; in Rome. Name: Aljosha Nakzynski. Weight: 7 lbs. 4 oz. Kinski had refused to divulge the father's name, but Moussa acknowledged his paternity last week...
...result coming off strangely condescending. Although his story presents itself as a novel, it owes more to the spirit of gossip and farce that to the novel as it is traditionally understood. Although Updike has a refreshing faith in Christian grace, he does not seem capable of addressing the companion doctrine of damnation can such a man wisely choose to write about witches? Moreover, the plot ignores the literary possibilities of magic: writers such as Robertson Davies and Iris Murdoch have put magical material to broader and more interesting uses...