Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundled to the dewlaps in white lynx and looking like the $1,000,000 she gets these days for a movie, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, arrived in London with Companion Richard Burton to brave the same sort of puree mongole smog that nearly did her in last year. While a phalanx of huskies kept photographers at bay, the Serpent of the Nile and Thames skittered into a blue...
...suitors are less satisfactory. Thomas Adams (Mr. Marlow) really must stop laughing at his own funny lines before tonight, and not all the woodenness of his movements is written into the part. His companion, Hastings (George Trow), is a puzzler to me; he has chosen to play the role as a thin-blooded, effeminate dandy, and that's not at all the way I read the part. I guess he does what he set out to do; I just think he's doing the wrong thing...
Republic of Engineers. Another close confidant of De Gaulle is Olivier Guichard, 42, who was Pompidou's administrative assistant before he caught the President's eye. A baron who maintains informal liaison with the left wing, Guichard is De Gaulle's traveling companion, troubleshooter and one-man intelligence network...
Jowls & Shanks. Pa is nicely played by Buddy Ebsen, 54, the ex-hoofer who last scored on TV as George Russell, constant companion of Davy Crockett. Pa has an oafishly agreeable young cousin named Jethro, who is a l'il weak-minded and has spent a dozen years in the fifth grade at Oxford. Oxford where? No one wonders except the thick-witted Hollywood types who want to know if Jethro went to Eton as a boy. "If I know Jethro, he went to eatin' when he was a baby," says Pa. Jethro is played by Max Baer...
...short story is surely the most intractable of prose forms. Few authors can write one well; yet anything less than brilliance is worthless. A mediocre novel can at least be a tolerable companion; a mediocre short story is merely a bore. But a writer who masters the form hears only the faintest of applause; his publisher wants to know when he is going to turn out a novel. Collections of short stories once helped launch such writers as Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter, but these days short stories are worth little in royalties and less in prestige. Irwin Shaw...