Word: companioner
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...Elliott to her parents' wedding anniversary, and Gould found his wavering faith in marriage renewed. Now he and Jennifer plan to wed in a month's time. That is, after quick divorces from their respective spouses. Elliott is inarticulate about what went wrong with his companion of five years and wife of six months, Jenny Bogart, with whom he has two children. Said Jennifer gamely: "A lot of people think Elliott is crazy. But I love...
...major dead dramatist to the ranks of the living. It might wryly be regarded as one of those periodic efforts to save the ailing theater. The god Dionysus (Larry Blyden) resolves to go down to Hades and bring back Euripides. In the Shevelove version, Bernard Shaw substitutes. As his companion, Dionysus takes along his obese, grumbling Sancho Panza-like servant Xanthias (Michael Vale). They have their slapstick encounters, not only with the cranky Charon, who speaks like a movie gold prospector, but with enticing houris, underworld strong-arm men, termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey...
Usually on such cruises, a burdened President has confined himself to ginger ale. Michel, on a liquor-free diet, thought he would have a companion again. "Oh, now, come on," Nixon urged the Congressman, who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, "break down a bit." Nixon did. He had a couple of Scotches and water. Then there was a nip of light white Bordeaux with the crab claws and some hearty California Cabernet Sauvignon with the beef. Michel unlimbered his camera and took some snaps of the men on this special excursion into history...
...diplomatic mission with her husband for the first time. "You are among Henry's family here," Sadat told her. As a wedding gift, he presented the couple a portrait of Kissinger done from photographs by Egyptian Artist Etimad el Taraboulsi (who last week was commissioned to do a companion portrait of Nancy Kissinger...
...show its effects, that's somehow a sign of strength." Chafetz points out that in some other countries-Italy and Israel, for example -drinking is an accepted social custom, but there is little alcoholism. Why? The reason, he thinks, is that alcohol in those countries is a companion to a happy occasion, not the occasion itself...