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...bourgeois leader. The marquis is asked to aid his fellow prisoner's escape by "distracting" their lascivious jailer. This prompts one of several debates with Colin (the penis) over who's really in control of the marquis' body. The marquis must accept the consequences each time he uses his companion Colin. His imprisonment and the political furor raging around him prompts a realization of the links between greed and art, opression and decadence, lust and autonomy. Sex is the nexus of these various concerns...
Kelly also said the filmmakers did consult Abzug "during the research phase of the film," as well as for the film's the companion book. Abzug, however, said he had no contact with producers since last August, after he was asked to be named as a consultant on a federal grant application...
...pain of electoral defeat had eased. He wore his old, dark-blue Air Force One windbreaker. He held a new biography of his hero Theodore Roosevelt, given to him by Vic Gold, an aide and companion in his political struggles. No presidential briefing papers. No tense parley waiting. Heading home...
...never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude," wrote Henry David Thoreau. Alas, solitude is getting harder to come by: the Federal Communications Commission has allocated a block of radio frequencies for new satellite paging services. Employing "little low-earth-orbit satellites," such services will allow people to send and receive messages worldwide. Users communicate through calculator-like devices costing around $350. Services could be available...
...recent Saturday. "We come for the conviviality, not for the alcohol," said Sylvain Lecuyer, a 40-year- old seasonal worker. "If someone does not show up for two days, we phone to see if he is sick." Musing on the closing of several local cafes, his drinking companion, James Jamet, 70, reflected morosely, "It is France that is dying." But in the next breath, he ordered a round for everyone, and one could only drink to the fact that so much of that zinc-plated Gallic spirit yet survives...