Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When a court order finally released the brothers from bondage in 1949, Stanley, 13, was 5 ft. 4 in. and weighed 97 lbs. Richard, 12, was an inch under 5 ft. and only 80 lbs. The pathetic pair were admitted to the Andrew Drumm Institute, a boy's home on a working farm near Independence, Mo. There Richard attended high school and learned to grow vegetables and slaughter chickens for the institute's kitchen. There, too, he escaped to the pages of books and so impressed his teachers that they put him on a scholarship road to Yale...
...American Heart Association meeting last year, involved 146 men with high cholesterol levels and a family history of heart disease. Brown divided his subjects into three groups, one taking niacin and colestipol, the second receiving colestipol and another cholesterol reducer, lovastatin. The third or control group got only a pair of placebos. All the men were placed on a diet that limited fats to 30% of total calories, the level recommended by the A.H.A. Here, too, after 2 1/2 years, those taking the drugs experienced large drops in their total cholesterol level, and 35% showed a decrease in arterial plaque...
...turned out, Boner's exultation was a prelude to a pair of spectacular sexual escapades. First, while still married to third wife Betty, Boner had a fling with a female bodyguard. Then he lurched into a love affair with a willowy aspiring country-music singer named Traci Peel, 35, who joked to the press that the mayor made love to her for seven consecutive hours...
...with a torrent of smart-mouthed ad libs. "How do we stand on fuel?" asks an onscreen astronaut. "I'm for it," comes the offscreen retort. In the tense few seconds before lift-off, a voice pipes up, "Did I leave the water running?" A scientist leans into a pair of earphones, trying to pick up a weak radio signal; the invented line is "I can't see a thing." Not since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? has anyone had so much fun with bad movies...
...pair swaps stories about cultural conceptions of god and human love while Incas are being murdered by the thousands outside the mountain palace. It seems sadly appropriate that the Incas are this expendable--they are never fully developed as characters, devoid of language and hidden by literal and figurative masks...