Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adventures. Nine years after Castro's victorious march into Havana, rationing is still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted...
...pair bicker and spat - then tenderly, or joshingly, make up; it is apparent that the glue of their domestic relationship is mutual need. That is reflected in the acting of Wallach and O'Shea, who are matchlessly mated to their roles. Exquisitely coiffed, Wallach is superbly narcissistic, as if he were modeling for an effete art agency. Fat, defensive, submissive, O'Shea would appear to have the lesser part, but he proves himself the better actor in creating an image of a patient, badgered man too good to be untrue to his bullying friend...
...actress on the basis of her sessions at group-therapy psychodrama. He (Gene Troobnick) is a sportswear buyer who poses as a sculptor by coating tennis rackets, mannequin legs and xylophones with plaster of paris. It is not so much the chemistry of love that fuses the pair as the mutual palpitating fear that they may be cultural dropouts...
Cherishing the delusion that he is a swinger, Stan is, in self-dismayed fact, a thirtyish virgin. Given to incessant self-analysis and self-recrimination, Sylvia has strained the juices of life into psychologically labeled jars. The pair's mating dance is jittery and erratic but unfalteringly human. One wondrously comic blackout sequence in which Stan is baffled by bra hooks, stuck zippers and the location of a misplaced contraceptive could serve as a catalogue of the frustrating minutiae that can reduce seduction to helpless farce...
...Crimson's Pete Mueller scored twice within eight seconds in the last period to put the game out of Clarkson's reach. Kent Parrot and Captain Jack Garrity also tallied a pair of goals apiece...