Word: cousinly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pakistan's Mohibullah Khan, 26: the U.S. Open Squash Racquets championship for the second year in a row, beating his cousin and former champion, Hashim Khan, 15-11, 15-10, 15-9; in Wilmington, Del. The Khans-and there are a dozen squash players in the family-have won the U.S. Open in nine of the last ten years...
...with Ben's appointment to the bench), he just can't seem to cope in courtship or in the court. As a suitor, he wavers between the comely Lutheran schoolteacher, who, he fears, after their first kiss, "lay awake all night awaiting labor pains," or a Mexican cousin he "would have ravished, in Fielding's glorious words," only to be prevented by her "timely compliance." His confusion leads him to doubt his capacity to love at all. But his wrestlings with his fateful judgment on the innocent man who murdered the hangman lead him to self-discovery...
...really a bargain at that price, so he thought he would take a look at it. the only trouble was that his mother happened to find it around his room, and she called a friend to tell her about her son's shocking purchase. This friend had a cousin who knew a lot about "dirty books," the mother learned, and so she called...
...turned out that the cousin was indeed an authority on "dirty books;" she even helps select them for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As soon as she had all the details, she called the chairman and asked him to summon a meeting of the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, in order that it might consider the case of the notorious Fanny Hill, which is chock full of tales of sexual experiences...
Performed with unbridled Neapolitan gusto by Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, this hilarious, sentimental, fiercely moral old tear-jerker is only a cousin by marriage to Pietro Germi's memorable comedy, Divorce-Italian Style. Its inspiration is the same rigid divorce laws that make marriage a last resort for Italian males and a Sisyphean challenge for the women who have to weep, cheat, wheedle and trick them into it. Under Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow), the two stars pour themselves into their work and set charm flowing like strong red wine...