Word: twos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong but subliminal homosexual feelings, and likes to call his colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs in perpetual agony. To alleviate the pain, he has become an aspirin addict, chewing tablets in twos and threes. At the farmhouse, the pair's dream of riches turns into a nightmare of disappointment: there is no safe, no money. In an orgy of rage, they kill the four Clutters, an unremarkable family of 4-H prosperity and rectitude...
LEOS JANÁCEK: CONCERTINO FOR PIANO (Crossroads). Among the latest additions to the fast-growing U.S. catalogue of Janáacek's works is this four-movement suite for piano with six instruments, which enter by ones and twos to sass the piano and one another. Not top-drawer Janácek, but nonetheless vigorous and jazzy with its insistent themes, bold fistfuls of chords and thumping rhythms. Josef Pálenicek is the pianist...
English tailors have made a science of measurements. Consider Walter Norton of Norton & Sons, who tailored a shooting suit for Bing Crosby with "plus twos" and also suits for Jack Paar and ten U.S. ambassadors. First, Norton snaps Polaroid pictures of the client front and side. Then, he drapes him in a Rube Goldberg contraption made out of wire rods, cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention...
Hilles Library groups students by twos and threes. When the library is half empty it is possible to be alone; otherwise the student is inevitably part of a group. He can chat with the person next to him without attracting angry glares, and he senses each move his partners make. Swing-out tables are provided for crowded days, but these are not partitioned and could well prove as unsatisfactory as the center tables in Lamont...
Along the streets, under billboards depicting exploding American aircraft and vicious, monkey-faced American soldiers bayoneting pregnant women, flow two sorts of traffic: myriads of bicycles and camouflaged military trucks, Uncle Ho's yellow star embellishing their radiators. Creaky old French trams still clatter by in trains of twos and threes punctually every ten minutes-unless stopped in their tracks, as happens ever more frequently when U.S. planes demolish a nearby power source...