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Word: pair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doodles | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Manic High | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tigers Upset Batsmen in Extra Innings | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: 6-3 Racquetmen in Maryland for Key Matches Against Midshipmen and Talented Terrapins | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When Are Secrets Best Kept? | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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