Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE consists of a gruff sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and a fuss-budgety newscaster (Art Carney) who share living quarters after losing their wives. Thanks to them, plus Playwright Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols, this ménage produces a volcanic flow of laughs...
...ODD COUPLE consists of a gruff sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and a fuss-budgety newscaster (Art Carney) who share living quarters after losing their wives. Thanks to them, plus Playwright Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols, this ménage is a Niagara of laughter...
...ODD COUPLE, by Neil Simon. Walter Matthau and Art Carney, two middle-aged newly de-weds, share living quarters and watch their friendship go on the rocks for precisely the same reasons that their marriages did. The play, on the other hand, is convulsively successful, thanks largely to deft construction by Playwright Simon (Barefoot in the Park) and daft direction by Mike Nichols...
...then it was dubbed Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, not only because of its long, subtly curving fuselage and odd little canard wing, but because of its unenviable test record. On its first test last October, a brake locked on landing, sending up a spectacular shower of sparks and flame. Six subsequent tests were not much more impressive...
Sworn to secrecy about their work, 50-odd members of Pope Paul's advisory commission on birth control met last week for three days of discussion at Rome's Spanish College. Their job is to prepare a report for the Pope to help him formulate an authoritative position on the Roman Catholic Church's most vexing issue. But so far, the experts are widely divided...