Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge Detroit. British Motor Corp., noting that 75% of its U.S. sales are sports cars, is coming out with two revised versions of its low-cost Austin-Healey Sprite ($1,868). It has also converted its tiny Austin 850 into the 90-m.p.h. Austin-Cooper mini-sports sedan boasting twin carburetors, disc brakes, and sure-footed front-wheel drive. Rootes is pushing its prestigious, $4,295 Humber (30% of its buyers are doctors, who like its luxurious interior and unpretentious exterior...
...wife promises to tell her husband about her lover, "but not before Christmas.'' There is a scandalously funny how-he-caught-her-with-the-other-man scene, in which the dentist blandly fails to catch on, that takes place in an Amsterdam hotel room on and around twin brass beds, and the triangle is augmented by a Dutch dental supply manufacturer and a bellhop translator. What follows is a kind of bilingual What's My Line? panel quiz that all by itself makes the evening worth its comic weight in inflated Broadway pennies...
...Lined Domesticity." The marriage part of this twin-goal life seems to be no trick at all. Largely as a consequence of better nutrition, girls mature earlier than ever; the average age of puberty has dropped by 1½ years since 1940. The average American woman marries at 20. Once the married college girl was a bit of a freak, perhaps the wife of a war veteran back to finish his education, or perhaps even trying to keep her marriage a secret. Now the campus marriage is increasingly common; last year at the University of California, for example...
...retold. With each telling, some new detail, some further revelation is dangled like a carrot for the reader who reads on and on until he feels like "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (the ironic title of one chapter). Heller fights a nip-and-tuck battle with the twin temptations of redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry me"). But an overdose of comic...
Fine Arts: The best twin bill in Boston at the moment. BLACK ORPHEUS is Marcel Camus' re-telling of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth in modern Rio. Don't go if you're tired; it's excellent but exhausting. Color is spectacular...