Word: companionship
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...that conventional reality can't be trusted, that human beings are not always governed by reason. They can be very cruel." Ballard's wife, Mary, died of pneumonia in 1964, leaving him to raise their three children alone. For nearly 40 years, he has had the help and companionship of Claire Churchill Walsh, a magazine editor. For a writer of his talent and durability, Ballard has won oddly few honors. (A republican, he declined a Commander of the British Empire award in 2003.) Australian author and academic Germaine Greer once called him "a great writer who hasn't written...
...Horsemeat is considered a delicacy for many foreign palates. But Americans raise horses for racing, work or companionship, and polls show a large majority of the public finds slaughtering them for a gourmet dinner to be repugnant. "It's one of the most inhumane, brutal and shady practices going on in the United States today," complains Republican Rep. John Sweeney, who sponsored the measure to ban the sale and transport of horses to the slaughterhouses. Sweeney's congressional district includes the Saratoga Springs harness racing track...
...notebook paper and placed it beneath a wiper of his white Toyota Corolla. It said, I WAS THINKING MAYBE YOU COULD COME BY SOME TIME TONIGHT. "I doubt she ever did anything like that before that time," says Rusty. "She just got to a point that she needed companionship...
...have returned many baby boomers to the dating arena. Most expect to live an additional 20 or 30 years, and they are determined not to go it alone. "They're doing their 50s unlike any other generation [has done them]," says Schwartz. "They're on an active hunt for companionship using all kinds of tools--online dating, joining clubs and looking for love where they found it before: in high school, college, relationships from their...
...movie full of beautiful women, glamorous drugs, and destructive arguments. “Stoned” is set in the final tumultuous months of Jones’ life, a time during which he withdrew into the private world of his Sussex mansion. He essentially abandons the band for the companionship of his girlfriend, Anna Wohlin (Tuva Novotny, “Bang Bang Orangutang”) and the renovator of his house, Frank Thorogood (Paddy Considene, “Cinderella Man”). This period of Jones’ self-imposed exile came to an abrupt halt when he was mysteriously...