Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of Brian Gardner's Mafeking [Sept. 29] makes no mention of an aspect of the siege which still is of interest. This was the printing and issuance, in Mafeking, of a special pair of "siege stamps" which were notable as being among the first, if not the first, examples of postage stamps printed by photographic reproduction...
...oldest dancer is a stripling of 30 (compared with 40 at the New York City Ballet). Many of the cheers this season, in fact, went to a pair of wet-behind-the-ears gambolers, elfin Robert Blankshine, 18, and athletic Luis Fuente, 21. The company's cheekiness and dramatic flair help strengthen the cause of American ballet by leaps and bounds...
...match designs on the outside. Like Europe's great furniture makers, the best gunmakers also turned out pattern books of designs, which were slavishly copied by other craftsmen for decades. In the 1740s, for instance, Russian court gunsmiths were still using 1670 French designs to ornament a pair of gold-plated six-shooters...
...more adventurous design their own around Volkswagen engines or the sturdy, simple Model A Ford motor. In a pinch, almost any old engine will do. One latter-day Orville Wright powered his homemade biplane with a pair of chain-saw motors...
...stereotype part. But everything else about Our Mother's House is splendid. Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) keeps his camera close to his subjects, frequently narrowing the field of vision to a telling detail-a hand on a sleeve, a pouring pitcher, a pair of eyes-again and again creating the effect of a sequence of stunning stills that build and sustain the mood. The children, though, are Clayton's triumph. Each of them is such an accomplished scene stealer that it is hard to tell whether the director deserves more credit for evoking acting...