"Unlike TV," Mr. Browne said, "it does not happen between commercial breaks".
If I speak of my twelfth wife as a negative woman, it's because she is the sum of all that did not happen between us.
His films are as much about what does not happen between his characters as what does, a tendency that enchanted critics as often as it drove audience members to distraction.
Journalists and Led Zeppelin fans packed the public gallery for a trial which veered from surreal to nostalgic to belligerent as Plant, Page and other witnesses testified about what did and did not happen between 1967 and 1971.
Whatever happened or did not happen between Michael Brown and Darren Wilson on a winding side street, in the middle of the afternoon, in a non-descript outpost on the edge of a midsized city, whatever we imagine we know of the teen-ager, the salient fact is that he did not live long enough to cultivate his own answers.
This kind of thing is meant to stay between the two of you, and telling your friends what happened — or didn't happen — between the sheets is about the worst thing you can do to a girl.
And e-mail messages can be particularly potent because they constitute what social scientists call "asynchronous" communication, meaning that exchanges between people do not happen in real time, unlike face-to-face or telephone conversations.
Even if the festival appearance does not happen, the gap between the Manchester and Glasgow dates suggests more shows might be scheduled.
If this does not happen, treatment typically lasts between 12 and 48 weeks and involves a combination of drugs that stop the virus multiplying inside the body.
It does not happen very often but Saturday's clash between Egypt and Senegal is a third-place play-off with the utmost significance.
