Word: companionship
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Bottoms powerfully conveys this depressing drama of a vulnerable man in a cold, modern city. His inflections and movements all speak of a person in desperate need of companionship. Rolling his dice, tapping his shoe against the floor, rocking in his baggy pants and chain smoking, Erie narrates his entire life...
Against this bleak backdrop, there would appear to be only one route to rejuvenation for the afflicted fans: football magazines, the esteemed journals which hit newsstands in the early fall and offer companionship for an entire season...
...treating it like visual Muzak or a cozy fireplace for the family to gather round. According to the authors of Where Does the Time Go?, a survey on leisure released last week by United Media Enterprises, television is "the new American hearth-a center for family activities, conversation and companionship...
...overwhelming majority of Americans are homebodies who need the company of other people. Eight out of ten say family activities are the most important use of spare time, and 83% of parents say they get great satisfaction from their children. "More than anything," says Pollock, "Americans are looking for companionship...
Sometimes the barriers to communication are simply those of nationality. Atwood's characters are often displaced: Americans lives in Canada, Canadians live in America. The first story. "The Man From Mars," follows the tale of a Vietnamese man seeking the companionship of a Canadian woman, Christine. Although bereft of friends herself. Christine is started by the refugee's language disability and threatened by his advances. Eventually, she has him deported to Vietnam, where war is unfolding and Atwood's ending suggests that he gets killed. Only when Christine notices the headlines of war in the newspaper does she begin...