Word: duos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubles Grossman and Rob Loud got some experience in the number one spot against Brown last week, when they downed Bruins Darryl Linsey and Mike Benson, 6-4, 6-2. Today, as the Crimson's number one pair, they face Boston University's Larry Field and Dave Katz, a duo who received a fourth-place ranking in pre tourney seeding Yesterday, the tandem defeated Boston College's John O'Connell and Bill Kelly...
...Nabokov acknowledges, Don Quixote the novel may be flawed, but Don Quixote the man is permanent. The bony knight and his fat squire, Sancho Panza, are the most recognizable duo in all of fiction. The lecturer traces their "long shadow" through the works of such disparate men as Dickens, Flaubert and Tolstoy. Had he ventured only a little further, he might have found quixotic elements in the books of Saul Bellow, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov...
...little trouble in keeping its untarnished Ivy record intact The netwomen's dominating sweep of the contest included six straight-set singles triumphs, after which the Cornell coach suggested the 10-game pro-set format in doubles competition. Here again the Crimson flourished as the number one doubles duo of Erica Smith and Captain Deborah Kaufman overwhelmed Cornell's top pair...
...Boxes appear on stage, both as tables and as a way for the players to appear and disappear. The effective use of curtaining to exclude Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from the rest of the players, and the thorough if unimaginative use of lighting to blacken the set completely, emphasize the duo's--and the audience's--helplessness. Like the players in Hamlet, we feel as if we are on the fringe of the real play that is slightly out of our sight. At times we are plunged into total darkness and feel the same apprehensions as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...
Lizandick (liz n 'dik) n. pl. [contemporary usage fr. Liz and Dick, often followed by exclamation point, i.e., Lizandick!] 1. Archaic. Mythic American actress and Welsh actor whose names were eternally coupled despite their celebrated uncoupling(s) 2. Aging and forever expanding histrionic duo whose sum is greater than their individual parts, and whose mutual moves are perpetually played out in public (did you hear that ~ started a limited-run revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Boston last week?). 3. Any pair of people who come together, split, come together, split, until they seem...