Word: companions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table," an elderly man explains as he and a friend unload a pair of deer. "Hunting is one of the few things you can do these days that'll get you away from women," says a plaid-clad man who calls himself "just Charley." "Yeah," concurs his companion, a mustached, bandoleered desperado manqué who identifies himself (unnecessarily) as "Red." "Opening day is when we go off into the woods and talk dirty...
Their laughter is cut short by the arrival of another pair of hunters. Patrick Hulbert, 14, of Pittstown, slides down out of a van and watches closely as Carlson checks his deer. So does his companion, an ardent deer hunter and gun-dog breeder who has been taking him hunting for the past four years and who, it turns out, taught him how to shoot. But not, presumably, to talk dirty. Most New Jersey hunters may have spent opening day with the boys. Pat Hulbert went gunning with his mother...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Bernardo Bertolucci, 38, Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris, 1900); and Clare Peploe, 31, his English assistant and onetime companion of Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni; both for the first time; on Dec. 16, in Rome...
Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey insists that even if the Times suspends, it will not be gone forever: "Our aim is to build the Times up and keep it going." Bracing for at least a temporary loss of their daily breakfast companion, some readers have offered touching pledges of loyalty. Wrote David Fitzpatrick from Sheffield: "A day without the Times is a desolate day, but if you must leave us for a time in order to put your house in order, so be it. We will be waiting when you return...
...easier. As they write, "We need to discover that other parents worry as we do, grow as we do, feel inadequate as we do, feel joyous, exhilarated or angry as we do." In this regard, Ourselves succeeds admirably. In reading, the book becomes a friend to talk to, a companion on the odyssey. Ten women from Boston and all the people they interviewed emerge from the pages to help...