Word: companionism
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Amanda was three months my senior. For the six years of my childhood that I spent in Denver she lived around the corner, close enough to be a near constant companion but just far away enough that I could display a playground boastfulness about being allowed to walk to her house alone. Her bedroom window faced mine across the alley and on summer nights we used to whisper through walkie-talkies long after our parents had put us to bed. Amanda was with me the first time I had a sleepover, the first time I was allowed to walk...
...think one of you got a bigger one," a tribal chief told Treasury Secretary PAUL O'NEILL when traditional headgear didn't fit him as well as it did BONO, his companion on a trip to Africa. "No," said U2's singer, "just a bigger brain." The modest rocker, who has lent sparkle to the cause of African poverty relief, brought O'Neill on a 10-day fact-finding journey that started last week in Ghana. The unlikely pair will travel through South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. O'Neill played the straight man; Bono did comic relief. O'Neill drilled...
...next to the Mona Lisa: the second most famous nude in Spain after Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and the first with pubic hair. She was not, by the way, the Duchess of Alba, with whom--contrary to legend--Goya almost certainly had no sexual affair. She, like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy. There are portraits of Alba in the show, though neither, alas, of the great standing figures, white and black, from the Alba collection in Madrid and the Hispanic Society...
...ancient monks?and seeing his own Asiatic features mirrored in their faces. "The people who made these Buddhas looked like Hazaras," says Hussain. "That's why the Taliban hated them so much." Forced to help destroy the two standing statues, Hussain says he's ready to find their sleeping companion. If he succeeds, Bamiyan's Buddhas can perhaps finally rest in peace...
...dining room should appeal as a dating scene for either sexual deviants or true romantics. The couple deeply in love does not need roses and cozy décor in order to swoon over each other, nor does the interesting conversationalist require sensory overload in order to invigorate his companion. The Blue Room’s sparse brick walls offer only bizarre Betsy Cullen photographs for distraction, so if you come, bring your A-game, order a quart of Budweiser and prepare for an interesting, if uneven, culinary jaunt around the world. A few destinations may not be worth...