Word: companionship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles Lakers, "by having unprotected sex with a woman who has the virus." And who was that woman? Magic does not know. "Before I was married," he wrote, "I truly lived the bachelor's life . . . As I traveled around N.B.A. cities, I was never at a loss for female companionship . . . After I arrived in L.A. in 1979, I did my best to accommodate as many women as I could -- most of them through unprotected...
...walls, offering a warm embrace which took me by surprise. I had always framed my thoughts about Jerusalem within the context of the ugliness of its religious wars and its atmosphere of fundamentalism. The color of the limestone, though, remained a constant source of comfort and companionship in its seeming refusal to surrender its morning glow and evening softness to the tensions of its surroundings...
...sessions in my Harvard dorms in which male dormmates would recount their sexual exploits to sexually inexperienced or virgin classmates. This just adds to the pressure. Why should anyone HAVE to have sex if they are not ready for it? I was pressured, ridiculed and cajoled to seek female companionship, and it made life miserable for me because I was not ready for such companionship. The Beatles song "Hey, Jude" is a classic example of perverse pressures put on males to "make it" sexually. In a society such as this, no wonder things go terribly wrong in sexual encounters...
Everyone has his or her own list -- each list no doubt is peculiar, idiosyncratic. The books you keep for the middle of the night serve a deeply personal purpose, one of companionship. Your connection with them is a mystery of affinities. Each mind has its night weather, its topographies. I like certain books about fly fishing, for example, especially Norman Maclean's brilliant A River Runs Through It, which, like fishing itself, sometimes makes sudden, taut connections to divinity...
...powerful and conscientious Senator, become ever more reckless about drinking and chasing women half his age. A long magazine profile last year documented several such occasions in uncontradicted detail. Rather than set an example for the third generation, the head of the family often looks to its members for companionship in his escapades...