Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige. One day, as he walked through a bullfight crowd with a portable microphone, he held out the mike to a stranger, who said, "You are a stupid bastard." "No sir," replied Paco, "it is you who are the bastard," and handed the mike back to the stranger. The pair traded obscenities for five minutes. That one cost Paco a 1,000-peso fine...
...tick." Attendants found an engorged tick embedded in Myrna's hair,, its head deep in her scalp. A doctor sprayed the area with ethyl chloride, which froze the tick so that it could not burrow deeper (as ticks do when disturbed), worked it out with a pair of tweezers, taking care not to break off the head. Within little more than an hour, Myrna was twitching her legs and whimpering. Next day she went home, fully recovered...
High Noon and The Moon Is Blue (at the V.F.W. Parkway Drive-In in West Roxbury). A pair of fine cinema classics with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in the first, William Holden and David Niven in the second...
Anouilh has conceived of his main characters in pairs, which balance off against each other in perfect classical symmetry. There is the rich, middle-aged Lady Hurf and the poor, middle-aged master thief Peterbono, each constantly trying to outwit the other. There are the two young nieces and the two young apprentice thieves; the gay niece pursues the sad thief and is repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress...
...ensuing melee, the phonies and the realies square off and pair off in what might be called drawers-room comedy. House Party is much like The Awful Truth, My Man Godfrey, and other films of that happy age and ilk, and probably the only reason Hollywood scouts have merely nibbled at the book till now is that they get the sensation of already having seen the movie...