Word: companionism
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...Chinese qipao dress and the freewheeling flapper styles of Prohibition-era New York. One model tossed his bowler hat into the audience as he left the catwalk. The remainder of the show was sprinkled with similar performance elements and flirtatious stunts. In one scene a model handed a male companion her purse while she took off her jacket. She strutted off the stage leaving him on the catwalk, the purse in hand. The Asian Americana segment explored what American symbolism means to the Asian immigrant. Patriotic reds, whites, and blues were accented by Asian twists like martial arts headbands. Some...
Sipping tea in another Burmese town, I listened as a companion recited his favorite line from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words had a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up Kennedy's challenge...
...Sipping tea in another Burmese town, I listened as a companion recalled his favorite line from the U.S. presidential inaugural address by John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words took on a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up the challenge...
...Bush will have a writing companion in his wife, Laura, who in January signed a multimillion-dollar contract to write her own memoir. But they'll have to pedal hard to catch up with the literary achievements of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Thursday also brought news of Barack Obama's 2008 book earnings - with the same publisher, Crown. The President picked up $2.5 million in royalties last year for his memoir Dreams from My Father (139 weeks and counting on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list) and The Audacity of Hope (64 weeks on the same...
...have often won the support of then Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic. Arriving to deliver his first speech as a presidential candidate on Saturday in the south of Tehran, Moussavi was greeted with chants of "Blessings to Prophet Muhammad. Khomeini's companion has come...