Word: companionism
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...March 21, 2005: Red Lake, Minnesota Jeff Weise, 16, kills his grandfather and companion, and then arrives at school where he kills a teacher, a security guard, five students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead...
...Vries’ relationship a source of ethical tension, but the film overflows with so much sex that the audience almost forgets about the crimes Müntze commits as a high-ranking SS officer. As Müntze, Sebastian Koch (van Houten’s real-life companion) disarms the audience with his character’s odd humanism and compassion. The latter half of the film is largely a showcase for Koch’s fine acting, although he gives a better performance in the marvelous “The Lives of Others,” which recently...
...Rajmohan Gandhi sees a cruel husband and a mostly absent father, paying scant attention to his children's schooling and dragging wife Kasturba across continents at will, belittling her desire for the simplest of material possessions, then expecting her to comply when he turns from amorous husband to platonic companion to apparent adulterer. Gandhi took on a magnetic personality in the presence of young women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments of sleeping and bathing naked together, without touching, all apparently to strengthen his chastity. (Whether these experiments were always successful is anyone...
...from poetry and fiction to memoirs and essays, with the accompanying visuals stylized to match the tone and form of the writer, including animation, still photographs, and slow motion video. “We were really just trying to create an aesthetic for each piece that felt like a companion to the way the soldiers would write,” Robbins says.For example, the graphic novel style was selected for one piece because its author, Colby Buzzel, impressed Robbins with his unique feel. “He’s kind of a punk rock kid. He kind of writes...
...victim is more likely to end up shot than one who simply hands over money - though his message isn't helped by incidents like one last October in which a would-be victim shot and killed a man he told police was trying to rob him and a female companion at gunpoint near the French Quarter. Then there's the possibility that a gun will be stolen and used in other crimes. But as long as the sense of being under siege persists, such concerns aren't likely to dampen sales of guns, pepper spray, guard dogs and other weapons...