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...negotiations this month on terms for the release of the U.S. hostages in Iran have intensified the other ordeal that the captives' families have endured for more than a year: the close scrutiny and, in many cases, constant companionship of the press. In Globe, Ariz., Balch Springs, Texas, and dozens of other towns across the country, each new development in the hostage dilemma means that the telephones start ringing again late at night and reporters camp out in front yards waiting for "reaction...
Many parents welcome the prodigal's return. Often the child who left home a bothersome teen returns a helpful adult who can also provide engaging companionship. Susanna Kaplan, 23, a physical-education major at Boston University, moved back to the Cambridge, Mass., home of her parents, Author Justin Kaplan and Novelist Anne Bernays, after four years of study and work. The family agrees that since Susanna has matured they all get along better than ever. Says Mother Anne: "Susanna has a powerful personality, but this is a very big house...
...friendship for Boswell was probably based on the need for attentive company, as was Boswell's for him on the need for the approval of an elder. Such friendships between unequals are precarious, but so are all friendships. Passion cools, pleasure fades, pity and hero worship breed resentment, companionship grows boring, need degenerates to dependence, comradeship loses its occasion. Suddenly, it is clear how fragile friendship is, how quickly it can be replaced by enmity, or by nothing...
Gone is the excess of the war years, when American G.I.s crammed Saigon's bars for instant companionship with girls who sipped "Saigon Tea" as packs of Vietnamese motorcycle cowboys roared through the streets. Now the signs of hard times are everywhere. Once well-to-do matrons slip into Tu Do's antique shops to sell family porcelains and ivory for cash. Beggars haunt the streets by day. At night, scores of vagrants sleep on the steps of the old National Assembly...
...prestigious $100,000 Inter national Pritzker Architecture Prize, created last year by the Hyatt Foundation to do for architecture what the Nobel Prize does for other disciplines. Declared the citation: "He has created some of our most unforgettable gardens, plazas and fountains, all magical places for meditation and companionship...