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  • General relief around the clubhouse that he didn't replicate Ian Woosnam's performance upon winning the 2006 Ryder Cup: Woosie knocked back an entire Guinness in one gulp, only to send a spectacular arc of black‑and-white mucus shooting out of his nose and across the sky like a 5%ABV rainbow.10pm Clarke, six pints in, is joined by Luke Donald, who toasts his friend's success by raising a mug of weak, milky tea.

    MBMs we wish we'd done in 2011 – No2: Darren Clarke's Open celebration | Scott Murray 2011

  • The Weinstein Company/Getty Images Michel Hazanavicius with his wife, Berenice Bejo For the last few months, film-festival goers have been buzzing about Jean Dujardin's performance as a silent-film actor in "The Artist," an exuberant black- and-white feature directed by the French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius.

    Silent Buzz for 'Artist' Team 2011

  • It was a black and-white photo, a family portrait, with a youthful Nonny at its center and six-year-old Paige perched on her lap.

    Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010

  • I had a big hamburger and a black - and-white milk shake and I'm good to go for a few hours.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2009 2009

  • Oscar-winning set designer, has lined the endless walls with a vast photo retrospective of Valentino's black - and-white advertising and editorial images, evoking the look of a massive art gallery.

    Peggy Siegal: My Roman Holiday with Valentino 2008

  • I have seen it often, but will briefly describe it for you: a red and-white, two-part thing on the head, very big and heavy—the Double Crown, it is called.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Six months pregnant, she ` s last seen leaving her office wearing a black - and-white checkered hat and a long khaki coat, her cell phone shut off while her vehicle is nowhere to be found.

    CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2007 2007

  • Besides books, you can load text files, photos (they show up in black - and-white) and music.

    Gadgets: Constant Reader 2007

  • I have seen it often, but will briefly describe it for you: a red and-white, two-part thing on the head, very big and heavy—the Double Crown, it is called.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • ANDERSON: So from Sharon Stone to "Basic Instinct," to the black - and-white movies of Hollywood ` s past, whether it ` s harmful to viewers or not, smoking will always be part of cinema ` s history, even though most would agree it ` s better left out of our children ` s future.

    CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2006 2006

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