Word: companionism
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...convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was eligible to be buried in a national cemetery, since he served during the Gulf War. Under current law, only those convicted of treason, espionage or sedition can have their benefits stripped. The Senate bill would add murder to that list, and a companion bill is being readied in the House...
...Superman" is a delightfully Shavian romantic comedy which reverses conventional roles by making the woman the vigilant pursuer and the man the hapless prey. The woman, Ann Whitefield (Kristin Flanders), is past mistress of twisting men around her little finger, and she has designs on her childhood companion, Jack tanner (played with dynamic vigor by Don Reilly), a young man and a decided taste for overbearing oratory. Much to his consternation, Jack is appointed one of Ann's guardians after her father's death--the other one being a confirmed old conservative, Roderick Ramsden (Alvin Epstein...
...presumably looking for something to steal, since taking the victim's car was no longer a possibility. "Who's gonna steal a car with a flat tire?" asks a prosecutor close to the case. Indeed, both Zakaria and Peters, who were with Markhasev that night, informed police that their companion told them he shot Cosby because the victim was uncooperative. But Zakaria, who comes from a well-to-do family in Huntington Beach, Calif., has a rap sheet two pages long that includes such charges as assault with a deadly weapon, obstructing an officer, burglary and buying cocaine. And another...
...historical monument," and Prout's Neck, Maine, where he looked upon the same "great, severe coastline" that inspired Winslow Homer. His cross-country expedition produced an eight-part mini-series, also called American Visions, which will air on PBS from May 28 to June 18, and a 635-page companion volume just published by Alfred A. Knopf...
Hughes' remarkable capacity to balance his reviewing for TIME with ambitious outside projects is nothing new. American Visions, the book, follows such Hughes best sellers as Culture of Complaint and The Fatal Shore; the TV series takes its place with his 1981 series (and companion volume) The Shock of the New. Now that he has brought off the feat of writing a whole magazine, what does Hughes have in mind for the future? Well, he's thinking about a book on Goya--but he's in no hurry to get to it. "The donkey," he says, "needs to graze...