Word: companioner
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...something going for it. Viva Italia! might, indeed, have something going for it, but other than a few good sequences, I couldn't possibly find them. This ostensible comedy is the worst, most offensive legitimate film I have seen in a long time I can only repeat what my companion muttered as we left the theater: "I knew Italy had problems, but I didn't know it was this...
Some months ago, Skora began to fear that Arok was lonely. So now the inventor is staying up nights in his garage, amid piles of eviscerated household appliances, working on a companion masterpiece: an even better robot. Skora says Arok's new sibling will do everything Arok can, plus open doors, light cigars and perform dozens of more complicated tasks that require feedback and self-correction. He (she?) will be semismart, with microprocessors and slow-scan television to guide his (her?) actions and, Skora hopes, the ability to take instructions direct from the inventors' brain waves. Sneb...
...Paris, two gunmen who had stuffed grenades and guns beneath their raincoats bluffed their way into the Iraqi embassy. They whipped out the weapons, but one of the two, after tossing a grenade, unaccountably dashed away and disappeared. His companion took nine employees hostage and held them for eight hours. Once again the gunmen's target escaped: Iraqi Ambassador Mundir Tawfik Wandawi was at the Elysee Palace bidding French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing farewell before he too departed for a new assignment. After an eight-hour vigil, the Palestinian was persuaded to release his hostages and surrender...
...suburb sporting an ice cream suit fit for Cab Calloway and a wife who made it known she had met Liz Taylor, was the kid who had been the class's best dancer. There, gowned in lavender and telling of an ended marriage while speaking of her new companion as "my fiance, my roommate, whatever," was the girl who had been head majorette. There, with the conspicuous tan and the bleached hair, baring a leg in a comic chorus-line kick-who could that...
...latest black prisoner to die in security police custody-and at least the 22nd during the past two years-was Lungile Tabalaza, 20, an unemployed high school dropout from the black township of New Brighton. Tabalaza and a younger companion had been arrested by uniformed police on July 3 as suspects in a series of gasoline-bomb attacks on delivery vans and the robbery of the drivers. Because Tabalaza had earlier been involved in illegal youth meetings in New Brighton, he was handed over to security police for "further investigation...