Word: companionism
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Here's some advice on how to survive an encounter with a bear on a hiking trip: make sure you take a friend along and run like hell. In choosing your companion, it is important that you select someone older, in worse physical shape and with more cellulite than you. You don't have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun your pal. JOEL R. BRYAN Westlake Village, California
...other scientists as "audacious" and a "tour de force," sent a shiver of hope through thousands of paralyzed people. Although doctors quickly pointed out that it may be years before last week's findings could be turned into an effective therapy, they too were clearly buoyed. In a companion commentary, New York University neuroscientist Dr. Wise Young wrote, "The possibility of effective regenerative therapies for human spinal cord injury is no longer a speculation but a realistic goal...
...many smiles and even occasional laughter from the audience as the perplexed and frustrated theater owners, Firmin and Andre, respectively. Carlotta, played by Kelly Ellenwood, makes and excellent egotistical prima donna. However, in this particular production, she seems more pitiful and needy than she does vicious and greedy. Her companion, Piangi (Stefano Fucile), possesses both a self-esteem and a voice pompous enough to match hers. Hating the two of them is still enjoyable, but not exactly a pleasure...
...survivors had fits of anxiety and sleeplessness as well. Mack sympathized immediately with the hundreds of families who were reeling from the disaster, unable to comprehend, unable to get information. He remembers arguing with a Pan Am representative who refused to check the names of his brother, his traveling companion and another relative who might have been on the flight. When he finally got help, the airline employee said, "Well, we have two out of three. You're lucky on the one." The TWA incident, says Mack, "was like hitting a brick wall. You know what these people are going...
...contemporary works fill the house in Bay Shore, Long Island, that he bought with the first money he earned from The Godfather. His daughter Virginia runs the household, and Carol Gino, the nurse who cared for his wife Erika before she died 17 years ago, is his loving companion. Sons Anthony and Eugene look after his financial interests...