Word: befriended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even electricity was rationed. But Curtiss, who comes from a rich Boston family-her brother is Lincoln Kirstein, a founder and patron of the New York City Ballet-had all the advantages of money and connections. Establishing herself in the Paris Ritz, she made it her job to befriend Proust's friends and to beg or borrow those precious letters...
...occupiers had come to plant seeds and protect the marsh, to share music and back massages, and to befriend the police. But most of all they had come to protest and to act, to use their bodies as well as their minds to thwart the construction of the plant. They stayed until Sunday, when the police came out of their compound and carried them off to buses and then to jail. Yesterday 880 were still there...
...MOVIE these days needs more than this, which The Last Detail seems to realize. Even as the old salts befriend the prisoner, take off his handcuffs and teach him to be tough and manly, they can't reach him. The klepto is too used to stealing affection and cowering with it: the gruff backslaps only make him smile a dreamy and faraway gulp that's almost the choke of a sob. Randy Quaid's performance catches the whippedcur look perfectly, shoulders hunched and forlorn...
There is no shortage of well-meaning people in British Novelist James Hanley's latest book: bobbies judges, probation officers and clergymen, even a kind neighbor who wants to befriend Mrs. Biddulph, after being shaken by the sight of her friend lying broken on the pavement. Mrs. B. rejects them all, apparently because they cannot substitute anything as authentic as her own bitter loneliness...
...cent for its expropriated properties. Chileans who took a conciliatory line toward Anaconda and Kennecott pointedly said nothing at all about ITT. After the scandal about ITT's alleged interference in internal Chilean politics, it would be difficult for any Chilean government of whatever ideological complexion to befriend the giant conglomerate...