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Pan beating dates back to the Middle Ages in a custom, called “charivari,” that was intended to shame ill-matched couples, according to Emmanuel Fureix, a historian at University Paris-Est Créteil.

Walters’ ill-matched pairing with evening anchor Harry Reasoner at ABC lasted only two years, and she went on to become a power player at the network as co-host of the prime-time newsmagazine “20/20,” a post she held for a quarter-century.

However, you’ll need to read not just “Swann in Love” but the rest of “In Search of Lost Time” to learn what happens to this ill-matched couple.

Strategy coverage, both sides do it, who's up and who's down, winners and losers, controversy of the day, access journalism, "we'll have to leave it there" … all these forms were spectacularly ill-matched to Donald Trump when he emerged as a threat to American democracy.

Real was beaten within 10 minutes: two goals down, ruthlessly exposed, looking suddenly like the expensive collection of gifted but ill-matched individuals that all right-thinking people dismissed them as about four Champions League titles ago.