Word: friendshipment
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...Jewish sportscaster Howard Cosell, Ali realized the ongoing dream of our society--and perhaps of the world--that people of different colors and religious backgrounds can disagree, taunt each other, support each other and at almost every point so purely recognize the humanity of each other that a transcendent friendship can emerge...
...HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...
...Running on Empty The headlines were too much about Gary Condit, a conservative California Congressman, and too little about Chandra Levy, his intern, whose disappearance made the anonymous pol, who ultimately admitted to a friendship with the 24-year-old, Larry King's favorite chew toy. His shameless efforts to save his rep instead of aiding the investigation confirmed the public's worst views of politicians. He apparently interpreted September's events as a reprieve: Levy is still missing, Condit is running for re-election...
...Nobody does taboo quite like Korean filmmakers. Kim Ki Duk's The Isle took sexual fetishism to new extremes: fishhooks became S&M tools. Park Chul Soo's feminist 301, 302 developed a friendship between a female anorexic and her overweight neighbor?only for the larger woman to eat the anorexic. Dogs, directed by first-time helmer Bong Joon Ho, takes on a lesser taboo in a manner reminiscent of another of this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks...
...that when he first saw Walker, he stood out immediately, not simply because he was a white man in a mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from another Muslim. The two teenagers struck up a friendship and frequently spent the 20 minutes between Walker's house and the mosque in rapt discussion of the Koran...