Word: companionism
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...down the corridor past gilded mirrors, Monet prints and bursting bouquets to our table in the Swallowtail's elegant tearoom. As I move to sit at our table, a second butler, named Mikami, materializes to ease me into my chair. "Good day, princess," he says to my dining companion--and not, I assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare the tea but not before showing us a golden bell we can use to summon him. We hunger...
...lead the country into obliteration - witness the scene where a lieutenant orders his men to kill themselves with live grenades, and all but one does so. But as the reviewer Aaron Gerow pointed out in the Daily Yomiuri, Letters doesn't truly attempt to grapple with history; unlike its companion movie Flags of Our Fathers, which probed the long-term cost of war and remembrance. Watanabe put it this way in an interview with TIME last month. "This film is not a display of patriotism," he said. "It is a testimony to what war is" - war in its universal immediacy...
...celebrity. The reign of Hepburn was mainly on the screen. She married an actor, Mel Ferrer, then she married a doctor; she had two sons, both attending her when she died. People near her said she was not treated well by her men until she found Robert Wolders, her companion for her last, most difficult decade...
...central tenet of the new thinking. That's the chief reason the Henry Ford Academy, a nine-year-old charter school with a racially and academically mixed student body selected by lottery, was located on the grounds of the 12-acre Henry Ford Museum and its 100-acre companion site, the Greenfield Village. The museum and village's exhibits of antique vehicles, restored historic homesteads and artifacts bring academic concepts to life and serve as the bases for class projects. When eleventh graders study early-American economic systems, the village becomes their classroom for nine weeks. Exhibit curators often lead...
...mosob”); and the presentation of our food (on a single tray placed inside the basket). Our server kindly recommended a dish called “sega bebaynetu,” a sampling of chicken, beef, lamb, and vegetarian dishes from the menu. Meanwhile, my companion and I enjoyed glasses of surprisingly fresh mango juice—probably perfect for a summer evening, but still delicious in December. Our platter arrived with the four dishes, as well as a mesclun salad with tomatoes and fresh cheese, and an extra plate of injera. Anyone who saw us attack this feast...