Word: companioner
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...possibly recommend The Salton Sea? If it could, this nasty film would make you smell the disgusting food on the table. And that says nothing about its casual sadism. One spaced-out speed freak has his female companion sandwiched between mattress and box spring, her legs twitching convulsively while he conducts a drug deal. The bad people in this film are, frankly, morons. They are not theoreticians of the theater of cruelty. It is their creators who are confusing the administration of giggly shocks with aesthetic ambition...
...idea for Nightfall sprang into existence when Cabot House resident Brooks A. Newkirk ’03 found himself unexpectedly alone for a three-day trip over Thanksgiving Break, after his traveling companion got sick and dropped out. Left with a long bus ride during which to think, Newman decided that Harvard needed an outlet for all the creativity that wasn’t being channeled through the Visual and Environmental Sciences (VES) department. He explains: “This is a club for people who don’t study film, but who love to make films...
Santos returned to his post at El Tiempo—which is currently owned by Santos’ family—while his future running mate and former dinner companion Uribe followed his political aspirations and became the governor of the Colombian state of Antioquia. Fate brought Santos closer to a political career in 1996, when he participated in a march against kidnapping in Antioquia, where Uribe was governor. “Back then, Alvaro committed himself body and soul to these marches,” Santos says. “My wife, who also knew Uribe...
...carry in the back of our mind the shameful memory of a passionate weekend with an attractive but unsuitable companion. For 12 million of us, that companion was The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller's torrid, tear-stained novel about a thwarted housewife, an itinerant photographer and the four-day shag that shook the world. Bridges spent three years on the New York Times best-seller list on its way to becoming the best-selling hard-cover novel of all time. Ten years later, just when we thought we had put it all behind us, Waller is back...
...committing lewd and lascivious acts with a minor under the age of 14 and one misdemeanor count of molesting a child, and was sentenced to eight years in prison. While serving his time, he wrote two books, both critiques of the American corrections system, under the pseudonym A. Companion. He was released on parole a little more than a year ago. Now in his 60s, he must register as a sex offender on each birthday for the rest of his life. He expresses deep remorse for his acts and agreed to speak with TIME's Peter Meyer so that "others...