Word: companions
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...kibble before coffee. Before long, not only had I surrendered my New York Times to the bottom of his crate, but I was also soon waking up early…and even working out. Each morning, we would venture to the trails, where I would hike with my new companion. Yet like any gal who’s fallen too far in love, I soon became Billy’s bitch. I found myself picking up after him constantly, giving him sponge baths, and showering him with gifts. I sometimes even found myself stooping to his level while I played...
...synching, determined walk down a busy street in “Bittersweet Symphony,” with one significant difference—there are no other people to be found in “Rather Be,” including the rest of the band. When viewed as a companion piece to “Bittersweet Symphony,” the nuances of the video are made more apparent. Rather than indifferently shoving past people on the sidewalk, as he does in “Symphony,” the oft-brooding Ashcroft is more pensive, intimate, and mournful...
...Companion Tix. Book a round-trip ticket on American Airlines from the U.S. to the U.K. in first, business or select economy class between now and Dec. 31 and earn a free companion ticket for travel to the U.K. or the Caribbean between...
...project in the urge to quash the creeping feeling that, despite the successes of his career, he's yet to do anything exceptional. "I wanted my Moby Dick," he writes. Readers can get behind that feeling, and as a witty and likable writer, he makes a good companion for this quixotic journey. But it's a far cry from chasing white whales, even if both stories explore the pursuit of elusive goals. "How did a fairly useless device hold such power over their imaginations?" Montandon wonders of his subjects. For his purposes, the more pertinent question is whether a full...
...well, his disdain for long-run economic considerations among them. ("In the long run we are all dead," he wrote in 1923. He would make it to 1946, but we're all still here.) When there's an immediate crisis to battle, though, Keynes makes for a reassuring companion. While he is sometimes depicted by U.S. conservatives as a wild-eyed socialist, his actual mission in the 1930s was to save capitalism. Now that capitalism may need saving again, is it any wonder that we turn again to Keynes...