Word: pluperfect
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Travis is the ideal -- indeed, the pluperfect -- symbol for this accidental movement, the soft-spoken, tall-sitting, sweet-singing eye of a most congenial storm. "People think country music is related to a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and fighting," he reflects, with the pleasing tang of a North Carolina accent. "They think it's all songs about drinking and cheating. But it covers a lot bigger area than that, you know." He pauses, as if taking a survey of the acreage he is trying to describe. Then, after a minute, there is a shrug and a simple, smiling, "Covers...
MATCHED PAIRS. Torvill and Dean (Jayne and Christopher), the pluperfect English ice dancers, and the twin brothers Mahre (Phil and Steve), who won gold and silver in near mirror performances at the Winter Games...
...have warned Levin of the congenital foot problem in 1979. Only in spirit was Walton the freest free agent, leader of the champion Portland Trail Blazers of 1976-77, the N.B.A.'s most valuable player of 1977-78, the vegetarian center from U.C.L.A. who gave the Establishment such pluperfect hell in the early...
...tells the producers of ABC's General Hospital that she would like to play a cameo role. And so she does, in five appearances beginning this week, playing Helena Cassadine (widow of former GH Villain Mikkos Cassadine). Alas, it should be recorded that her effort is not pluperfect. It seems that Liz, in a repeat of last year's Tony Award speech-when she referred to Producer James Nederlander as James Needleheimer-trips over the pronunciation of her own character's last name. Several takes later, she finally masters Cass-uh-dine. Whew. Says Liz afterward...
...Levene had graced the British stage for 53 years, he would long since have been knighted. He is a pluperfect master of the groan, the pause, the gravelly riposte, and nobody, but nobody, has his comic timing...