Word: companionism
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...Court grounds, bloodied, exhausted and still coughing from the effects of the tear gas. A few managed to raise a defiant slogan, but most chatted quietly among themselves. "It's just a shade short of Burma," said one bedraggled lawyer, echoing an earlier statement by Ahsan. "Yeah," said his companion. "But here they are attacking lawyers in suits instead of monks in saffron...
...Forbes Web site. The rankings are based on the number of times a woman is mentioned in the press, her resumé, and “the size of the economic sphere over which a leader holds sway,” according to the list’s companion article. The list’s blurb on Faust cites her status as the University’s first female president, her numerous academic prizes and teaching awards, and the size of Harvard’s endowment—which was around $30 billion at the time of the list?...
...Bean's classic teddy-bear companion with him in the movie...
Sadly, Teddy has disappeared in the movies. While he was a companion on the TV show, the movies have a fish-out-of-water feel in which Mr. Bean is taken out of his familiar environment. We didn't want him to have any crutches to lean on, so we felt a need to jettison the teddy bear...
...parlor game played by the Surrealists, those convention-spurning artists, writers and pranksters who flourished in 1920s Paris. Its objective: to uncover the magic of accident. One person would write the opening of a sentence, fold the paper to conceal part of it, pass it to a companion for continuation, and so on around the table. The first attempt contained the nonsense phrase "exquisite corpse," and the name stuck...