Word: companionism
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There is a certain freshman girl at Harvard who looks very sweet in her profile photo on Facebook. She has a nice smile, a cute necklace, and an adoring male companion kissing her on the cheek. On the surface, it would seem that she has nothing to worry about by joining Facebook.Her favorite movie, however, is “Backdoor Sluts 9.” Her parents probably won’t find out about her enjoyment of unclad cinema, but they might if her name had been included in this article. If Fifteen Minutes had chosen to publish...
Usually. That's why older women typically hook up with men who are younger or older than they are. And some are very open about saying they like having several different companions, older and younger. Younger is wonderful for hot athletic sex, and the older man is really a wonderful cultural companion...
Honey, would you please pass me the wine, so I can cry into it?" As the bill for a dinner at L'Arpège in Paris was served up, its recipient couldn't restrain a shocked yelp ("$900 Canadian!"). His female companion, whose menu displayed no prices, had only been able to guess how much anything cost by her partner's cringes as she ordered. I cringed, too. French haute cuisine is frequently underwritten - and then written off as mugging at Sabatier knifepoint - by hapless tourists. Since the late 18th century, when the Revolution cooked the goose of French...
...just before civil war broke up the island, and he was living in rural Egypt when villagers around him started going to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in search of jobs. He was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The disappearance of seeming paradises has been his lifelong companion. More than that, though, he is an amphibian of sorts who knows what it is to be both witness and victim. Though he has a doctorate from Oxford, lives in New York and teaches at Harvard, Ghosh was born in India, and grew up in Bangladesh, before moving to Egypt...
...robot heroes 8-Bit take “Hell Yes” to its logical conclusion, replacing the idiotic old-school backing track of the original with a huge, pixilated synth attack. They even give Christina Ricci’s ridiculous sushi waitress voice-samples a counterpart robo-voice companion. Electronic highlanders Boards of Canada make “Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished, if a bit too long and slow. Anticon post-hoppers Subtle take the blues-horror of “Farewell Ride” into the urban jungle, and are smart enough...