Word: twos
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...managed to kidnap and hold two thousand of our G.I.'s. In usual musical fashion, the entire cast breaks down into girlfriends and boyfriends. The U.S.O. troupe consists of three couples. Alura lives with her nearly-Frankensteinian lover, Max. Even the peripheral characters travel around in twos, and then there are these twins who keep traipsing through for no apparent reason. Obviously, director Andrew Sellon has taken God's directive to Noah to heart. Then again, God never ordered Noah to write and direct (and write lyrics, and design the lights, and design the makeup) for an original musical...
...today. In half an hour it is over &3151;except for the receding ripples of laughter and neighborly joshing. The musicians mosey by twos and threes toward their cars at the hall. For a moment it is hard to remember the funeral that must by now have ended at the distant cemetery. It is easy, however, to remember Albert Walters. If his days on earth had even a dash of the style of his leaving it, he was no man to be pitied.-By Frank Trippett
...Trinhs are understandably fearful of crime. The first day they moved to Brooklyn they witnessed a mugging in the subway. Says Thuy, 22: "We've been warned not to leave home unless it's necessary, not to go out after dark, and to always travel in twos and threes." Adds Thuc Phan, 20: "How can we tell robbers we are too poor...
...install sprinkler systems and smoke alarms, but to no avail. "Retrofitting of the older hotels has always been an economic tug of war," says Clark County Manager Bruce Spaulding. Perhaps now they will. Says Gordon Vickery, director of the U.S. Fire Administration: "We usually lose people in ones and twos, and the public doesn't pay much attention. It takes a disaster like this...
...house and a moor, to hire Land Rovers, retrievers, gamekeepers, beaters and expert loaders who keep the guns charged, can cost about $25,000 a week. Even a week's stay at a modest inn costs more than $4,000. Then there is the required costume: "plus twos" (knickerbockers), heavy woolen socks, cleated gum boots, a Husky weatherproofed coat and a snug tweed cap. The sportsman also needs evening clothes and funds for the native libation. And the gun must have his guns, preferably a pair of 12-gauge double-barreled sidelock ejectors from London's Purdey James...