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Both parents worried about the temptations of the street when young John was growing up. But Singleton, bolstered by the companionship of the two friends who would serve as models for the characters Doughboy and Ricky in the film, steered clear of gangs. Acquaintances of his were hurt in gang fights, and one was killed in an alley near his house, but the closest Singleton ever came to committing a violent act was in seventh grade, when a bully tried to take his money. He took a box cutter to school and threatened to cut the boy's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Just One of The Boyz: JOHN SINGLETON | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

Although the building provides members with a variety of advantages--including a lounge open 24 hours a day with cable TV, a pool table and a piano--Petschek says the club's motto, "In companionship we go," reflects the Pudding's true benefit...

Author: By Ton-ming BAY Fang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Hasty Pudding Club | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

...envoy Terry Waite, for instance, are particularly sharp. Calling Waite the "bane of our existence," Sutherland told TIME that when the large Waite moved, "it was like a goddam herd of elephants." When Waite joined Sutherland, Anderson and others after enduring four years of solitary, he understandably hungered for companionship -- but he had a hard time adapting to the courtesies of a shared cell. "Other hostages had a sense of when people needed privacy and didn't want to talk," Sutherland said. "Waite wanted to talk constantly, ask stupid questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lives in Limbo | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dangerous World of Wannabes | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nader A. Mousavizadeh, | Title: A City in Conflict | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

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