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...NIT has been dominated so far by the short men. Nemelka, an All-American and B.Y.U's top scorer on the team is only six feet tall. The entire Army team did not have a starter over...
...COUPLE. One man's wife left him because he is a slob, the other man's because he's a nit-picking neatnik. The jilted men are surefire flops as roommates but roaring successes on Broadway...
...approach to history, absolute impartiality was imperative, and readability was sacrificed to research. The monograph, freighted with footnotes, was triumphant, and out of the graduate schools poured a profusion of dreary doctoral theses on subjects no larger than thimbles. Legend has it that one professor, exasperated with the whole nit-picking business, wearily eyed an enormous tome that a Ph.D...
...heroine (Arlene Francis) is a middle-aged housewife- romantic despondent, full of vague aspirations', and a bit of a nit - who doesn't know whether to put her faith in Freud or Betty Fnedan. She is carrying on an illicit affair with an Italian-American sex mechanic (Robert Forster) who is young enough to be her son. She tries to inoculate the boy with culture by drooling John Donne to him, but he is a resolutely monosyllabic nobrow...
...heart attack; in Hollywood. "George," said Gracie in 1922, "I've got a great idea for an act. All we need is $200 for sets." "You're daffy," said George, and for the next 35 years she was indeed-a treasure trove of malapropisms, non sequiturs and nit-witty ideas that somehow always managed to pan out just before the commercial, making Gracie and her husband George one of the earliest, and certainly longest-lived situation comedy teams...