Word: companioner
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...Ostensibly amused by L.A. playing itself, he is more alienated than Maria. His father visited Lourdes and lost his faith; B.Z. didn't bother with the trip. He sits at the bottom of the well which Maria is falling down. All he can do is smile and welcome a companion. They share the parties and friends, and make the right cynical jokes. And they both know that it adds up to zero...
...circus freak. He or she represents nature gone awry, a creature of bizarre habits, obsessive appetites, crazy compulsions. The kook has no claim on our common humanity unless he can be made endearing in some way as, for example, Elwood P. Dowd was through his affection for his invisible companion, the 6-ft. rabbit, Harvey...
...Intermission did arrive and after it the Weber Overture to Oberon, a bit of mindless romanticism that was just good fun. Compared to Oberon, Ravel's Sheherazade was romanticism run amok. The Weber was a perfect companion piece to the concert's opener, Shivaree by this year's occupant of the Norton Poetry Chair, Leonard Bernstein. Sporting a brass choir that practically made the Sanders Theater stage sag with the weight, the massed percussion and brass charged through a work that begs to be labeled distilled West Side Story. Bernstein's music is accessible without sacrificing musical integrity, a combination...
WELL INTO HIS SEVENTIES. French writer Henry Pierre Roche wrote companion novels of life and love in-pre World War I France In 1962. Truffaut adapted the first of these, Jules and Jim and that probably still ranks as his greatest critical success I wo English Girls is an adaptation of the second novel After ten years. Truffaut has gone back to the well but this time the bucket leaks...
...north of Cyprus, Captain Walter Claussen, 37, felt a gun muzzle at his neck and a soft-spoken Arab behind him on the flight deck. "I am the captain now," said the man, who called himself Abu Ali, a common Arab name. While he kept Claussen under surveillance, a companion dotted the plane with explosive charges the size of cigarette packs...