Word: companionism
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...This is not normal for a concert,” she muttered to her companion...
...friendly rival, American Public Radio, has nearly doubled its total programming hours in the past year. (NPR and APR both supply programming to public radio stations; NPR is best known for news and public affairs, while APR distributes a variety of music and cultural fare, including A Prairie Home Companion...
...Soviet plant), the policy today is to give them as much freedom as possible in order to reinforce their belief in the American system. Yet sometimes that approach is sloppily executed. Yurchenko, for example, allegedly was left pretty much alone on weekends, with only one junior officer as his companion. How Yurchenko, already feeling depressed, could be allowed to eat at a restaurant within walking distance of the Soviet residential compound also mystified CIA critics. "The mishandling is obvious," says Republican Senator Frank Murkowski. "If you catch a fish this big . . . you usually check your nets to see if there...
ENGAGED. Garrison Keillor, 43, beguiling, bittersweet chronicler of U.S. small-town life on radio (A Prairie Home Companion) and in books (Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegon Days) and Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student at Keillor's Minnesota high school, who met him again when she returned in August for a 25th class reunion. The marriage, scheduled for Dec. 29 in Copenhagen, will be the second for both. Keillor had dedicated Lake Wobegon Days to Margaret Moos, his radio producer, with whom he shared a house in St. Paul; she has taken a leave from the show...
...temporarily displaced Minnesotan, Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion is more than a Saturday-night entertainment. It is a two-hour break from the congestion, the frenetic consumerism and the looniness of California, a sort of "Radio Free Minnesota." Steve Anderson San Francisco...