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...ethics guru. I question the Governor's proposed appointees about matters that are ethically sensitive, help raise their sensitivity quotient. It's the things that are not blatant that get you into trouble. This is not just an initial push and then you forget about it, but a constant companion for the duration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ethical Guru: BARBARA JORDAN | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

DuBois, who retired in 1969, died of pneumonia and heart failure, said Jeanne Taylor, who was her companion for more than 40 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropology Professor DuBois Dies at Age 87 | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...outside Jidda with a Saudi official who was telling me about what he called "the limits to political modernization" in the kingdom. I caught sight of a road sign to Mecca, only 31 miles away. Knowing that non-Muslims were forbidden to visit the holy city, I asked my companion whether he thought someday, when Saudi Arabia is more open to the outside world, the ban might be lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...story is primal, and so are Zhang's cinema strategies. Everything is told through gestures and colors. In the undressing scene, the beautiful Gong Li (who is the director's offscreen companion) wordlessly expresses the range of Ju Dou's feelings, from shame to rebellion to cool majesty. And with its sensuous color scheme -- reds, yellows, blues, in bold and subtle tonalities -- Ju Dou looks like a dream of carnage at sunrise. When the couple make love by the dye vat, a long bolt of red fabric unravels past Ju Dou's face: an ornament to her ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tainted Love by the Dye Vat | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...course, every store that has an outlet in Kittery has a companion in Freeport, home of L.L. Bean...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Life in the Slow Lane | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

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