The Julian Moore character shouldered none of the blame for the very unlikely coupling with the horny donor dad.

On the surface, however, Brazil and Argentina are a most unlikely coupling.

The novel is a painful account of this unlikely coupling, its persistent misunderstandings, its interaction with a world that increasingly pits wealthy, globally connected Westerners with the often stateless, roaming poor of the world looking from the outside in.

And some of Mr. Clinton's comments, like his call for overhauling the rules governing lobbyists and campaign finance, drew cheers from the unlikely coupling of Democrats and freshmen Republicans.

It was the most unlikely coupling.

The result is "a painful account of this unlikely coupling, its persistent misunderstandings, its interaction with a world that increasingly pits wealthy, globally connected Westerners with the often stateless, roaming poor of the world," Andrew Sullivan wrote here in 2001.

In May 1990, Yemen and Southern Yemen agreed peacefully to unite, in what seemed an unlikely coupling between traditionalist and Marxist states.

The journal, published out of London, was an unlikely coupling of the New York intelligentsia with their English counterparts-an exhilarating intermarriage of intellectual cultures.

Also on view is the stubby little Smart Car from Daimler Chrysler - more the front end of a bug than the whole insect - that is the progeny of the unlikely coupling of Mercedes Benz and Swatch.

The chairman of the bank, Pierre Dummond, had held his present position for the past nineteen years, but even he had rarely experienced a more unlikely coupling than that between an educated Arab from Iraq and the son of a former Mafia lawyer from New York.