Word: pair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart Couple is but a cloying romantic comedy, partially camouflaged by characteristic Altman flourishes. The pair are Alex (Paul Dooley) and Sheila (Marta Heflin), lonely souls who meet via a video dating service. It is not love at first sight. Alex is a middle-aged classical music fan who is still under the thumb of his large, oppressively patriarchal Greek family. Sheila is younger, a rock singer, and lives with ambisexual fellow band members in a loft commune. When Sheila explains to Alex that her loft is located in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, he replies, "All those...
...architects of the evening's comic chaos are a fourth couple, Trevor (Stephen Moore) and Susannah (Delia Lindsay), a pair of neurotic, egocentric twits who have the instincts of termites when it comes to reducing their friends' relationships to rubble. Trevor yearns to "communicate" though he cannot finish a simple declarative sentence, and Susannah gives herself pep talks on self-confidence with the assurance of a snowball crossing the equator...
...Alevizos for three runs. A triple by Stenhouse and a double by DH Jim Peccerillo (2-for-5, 3 RBIs) put the batsmen ahead in the fifth 4-3, but the Tigers went crazy in their half of the inning, capping Alevizos and relief man Paul McOsker for a pair of talleys each, and so ushering in Stewart and the merry miscues of Charlie Fuchs...
...tennis team travels to the land of Spiro T. Agnew, the Chesapeake crab and the Baltimore oriole this weekend for a pair of key early-season matches that may be a first step in upgrading the "good-but-not-great" label the Crimson has worn the last two years...
...guise of national security. Out of congressional investigations came several indictments: Gray and two other FBI officials. Edward S. Miller and Mark Felt, were charged with conspiring to authorize illegal break-ins to track down members of the radical Weather Underground; former CIA Director Richard Helms and a pair of ITT officials were charged with lying to a Senate subcommittee in 1973 about plotting to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. But in late 1977 Helms was allowed to plead no contest to watered-down charges that he misled the Senate, and this winter the Justice Department simply dropped charges...