Word: companionship
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...Rita's only real concern is the precise shade of her hair. "They done it pink champagne instead of pink platinum," she whines, grieving over a fake-blonde pompadour that makes her look like a malicious caricature of Princess Margaret. Her young husband eventually finds more comfortable companionship with a motorcycling mate, Dudley Sutton, who all but steals the movie as a butchy, baby-faced homo in hood's clothing. In the boys' scenes together, Director Furie explores a touchy subject with restraint, letting his camera discreetly suggest that the lads' playful roughhousing is a series...
MUSTARD GAS." Nothing helped. At last, lonely and morose, he sought the companionship of a watermelon. "I figured if things didn't work out I could always eat it." But the watermelon died. And he was left alienated once again. Vernon's miseries will be worth $100,000 this year. And future bookings are pouring in. Still, Vernon is taking no chances, planning no new routines. "I've been a real loser too long," he says. "I'm sticking with failure. It's been good...
Resistance Fighter. Two years ago, when Reb Blau's first wife Hinda died, some of the steam went out of the old man's protests. Eventually, some of Blau's disciples decided that what he needed was female companionship. A shadchan (marriage broker) knew just the woman-Ruth Ben-David. Her original name was Madeleine Feraille. Born in Calais and Sorbonne-educated, she helped save the lives of several Jews while fighting with the French Resistance during World War II, and became interested in Judaism. Later she converted to Orthodox Judaism, divorced her merchant husband, changed...
...long as she's at it why not draw on one's womanly sensitivity, experience and powers of observation to write what the PR blurb describes as the story of two girls, "one self-assured, perhaps even aggressive, eager for companionship, and decidedly on the make," and the other young lady, the narrator, "shy, sensitive, and cautious, yet at the same time eager for a relationship she fears but finds constantly in her dreams," and later how "in the New York world of abundant drink and casual fornication, the relationship between the two girls becomes, in a sense, reversed." Fine...
...might be useful "in mass education, group treatment and research." It might be valuable, they add hopefully, for pilots in long space flights, to help them cope with feelings of isolation and loneliness-a radio message from Earth, for example, could activate a previously implanted suggestion of encouragement and companionship. But they also warn that unscrupulous operators might "confuse, exploit and deceive hypnotizable subjects." This experiment, they concluded, "emphasizes the compelling need to maintain responsible, stringent safeguards and control over the personnel having access to public broadcasting systems...