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When former Missouri Democratic Senator Edward V. Long died last November at 64, his death was attributed to a "cerebral vascular accident" that had "all the appearance of a stroke." Last week it was revealed that Helen Dunlop, the Senator's secretary and close companion for 26 years, had touched off an official probe by charging that his death was actually the result of poisoning...
...Russian origins, Salome was educated at home in Saint Petersburg and at the University of Zurich. In the course of her many travels she became a friend of Nietzsche, a companion, guide and confessor to Rilke (it was she who first introduced him to Russia), and a favorite pupil of Freud. She knew Wedekind, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, and Hauptman. She met Stringberg and the great stage director Max Reinhardt, and Martin Buber encouraged her writing...
...youth then handed a large pair of clippers to a companion, who bent down over a second bicycle, Fitts said...
Through lush summers and harsh winters, Francis and his group of friends build their "people's church" of San Damiano, under the eyes of a primitive Christ-figure that adorns one of its walls. The "cream of the city's youth" desert the town to follow the companion with whom they once warred and whored, towards a life of charity and chastity...
...about to bear him when he took flight. Max is trying to get to Denver to visit his sister Coley (Dorothy Tristan) and invest his frugally accumulated prison pay in a proud new business tentatively christened Max's Car Wash. He takes Lion on as traveling companion and prospective partner. "I'm the meanest son of a bitch alive," Max tells Lion by way of a warning and a boast. "We're gonna have a fair car-wash business or I'm gonna break your neck...