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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 18, 1983 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening's end were dancing cheek to cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 15, 1982 | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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