Word: companionism
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...breaks, Noah gets persuaded to try a gimmick. They put a ringer from the Negro League in a costume and introduce him as the Golem of Jewish legend. Fishkin, the team's pinch-hitter, explains the legend: "a golem is a creature that man creates to be a companion, a protector or a servant. But only God can grant a creature a soul and inevitably golems become destroyers." And so, as it must, disaster befalls the team when it introduces the creature to a crowd baited into an anti-Semitic frenzy by the local paper...
...PUZO PLUMMETS: Mario Puzo died in 1999, but his last novel is being published now. "The Family," which will be published by ReganBooks on October 2, was finished by Carol Gino, Puzo?s longtime companion. Kirkus winces. "The old, black magic just isn?t here. ?The Family? is Godfather Lite. Eminently skippable." But Judith Regan, with a first printing of 250,000, is betting that most people don?t read Kirkus...
...Schlesinger Jr., for example, abandoned a career producing serious, much admired histories in favor of massive, beautifully written court biographies of Jack and Robert, both published after their deaths. His services are still required by the family today. When the Met published its $50 coffee-table book as a companion to The White House Years, Schlesinger, 83, composed an essay...
...only trouble with this theory is that it's wrong. The earliest humans, it turns out, didn't live in grasslands. Dry climate or not, a companion paper published last week in Nature shows on the basis of the other fossilized flora and fauna, as well as the chemistry of the ancient soil, that Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba lived in a well-forested environment. That's also the case with other extremely ancient hominids found during the past several years, including Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus and a species called Orrorin tugenensis, announced last December by French and Kenyan researchers. And while...
...unique husbandry of space. Each building is not so much a discrete object as a complicated succession of vistas. He called his plan for the Helsinki museum "Chiasma," a Greek word for "intertwining." That describes how the museum's curving outer section enfolds a straighter-lined companion structure. It also refers to the complicated lines of sight and movement by which his intricate design reaches out to the surrounding streets. Moving among the museum's 25 galleries, visitors wind between the two portions and upward toward a concluding level of--what else?--sunlight...