Word: companioner
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...hand that fed her? More likely, perhaps, Unking two hands together. For Kelly thrives on eclecticism. She alternates a Bavarian inflection with an American twang, warm private gestures with eloquent public harangues. When detractors brand the Greens as a youth party, Kelly points to her colleague and frequent traveling companion, her 77-year-old grandmother...
...onetime actress with a flair for the dramatic, Erin Fleming, 42, was Groucho Marx's companion for the last six years of his life. Whatever their life was like together, the battle being waged in Santa Monica, Calif., between Fleming and the bank that was named as Marx's executor has had all the decorum of the courtroom scene in Duck Soup. In the seven-week case, which goes to the jury this week, the Bank of America accused her of gulling the comedian out of $428,000 before he died...
...officials were soon complaining to visiting American scholars that Mosher was abusing his status as a researcher. At various times the Chinese accused Mosher of traveling in forbidden areas, trying to smuggle old coins out of the country, bribing villagers to gain information and bringing in an unauthorized female companion from Hong Kong. Mosher has denied all those charges...
...every unseen movie is a masterpiece, as Success amiably proves. Its oafish hero Harry (Bridges) cannot seem to get the attention of his pretty, dotty wife (Belinda Bauer). They have sex every Friday; in between she chats with her cats and practices ballet before her favorite companion, a full-length mirror. So Harry gives himself another life, in the guise of a swaggering gangster named Mack. Suddenly, love and the perfect swindle are his for the daring. This is a cynical fairy tale that must be told with buoyancy of spirit; Richert's gift is for earthbound madness...
...Suspect Terrain, the latest issue of this arrangement, is a companion volume to Basin and Range (1981). That book explained the New Geology, based on McPhee's travels through the far West with a proponent of plate tectonics. This branch of earth science grows from the theory that the planet's great land masses slide around like dishes on a boat. Over time, Africa could end up in Brazil's feijoada, Australia in China's egg foo yung...