Word: blemishes
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...Yeats. Ford, director of classic Americana from Stagecoach to The Grapes of Wrath to The Last Hurrah, is an artist of enormous sweep. But he has been guilty of certain venial sins, among them boozy sentimentality and the use of overfamiliar stock characters. In Bogdanovich's eyes every blemish is a virtue, and no detail is too trivial to examine. He traces, for example, the history of a gesture first used by Harry Carey and later mimicked by John Wayne. Far more interesting than the critical narrative are four interviews interspersed with glimpses of Ford movies. Wayne, Jimmy Stewart...
...fumbling efforts at democracy, Bunker did nothing to diminish his reputation. Now President Thieu's intransigence in the face of Bunker's efforts to ensure a fair election has proved a profound disappointment to the septuagenarian diplomat. He is on his last assignment, and the unwarranted blemish at the end of an otherwise superlative career hurts deeply. The pain was evident as Bunker met with newsmen, including TIME Correspondent Stan Cloud, who sent this report...
Ever since they discovered it three centuries ago, astronomers have been baffled by Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The larger-than-earth-sized blemish, which drifts mysteriously across the face of the solar system's biggest planet, sometimes covers an area 8,000 miles wide and 30,000 miles long. Occasionally it grows noticeably brighter; at other times it almost vanishes. Other than to speculate that the spot is caused by an unusual deviation in the planet's magnetic field or a physical irregularity somewhere below its atmosphere, scientists have long been at a loss to explain...
This latest critical appreciation of Mark Twain is not without blemish, being sloppy, narrow, quarrelsome, doctrinaire, vague, repetitive and ungrammatical. But it has its virtues too. The best of these is that Writer Geismar loves Mark Twain and quotes him joyously on almost every page. Sometimes he likes a passage so much that he quotes it twice, but Twain can stand that...
...only blemish on the Yardlings season was a 6-3 loss to B. U. in December. The Terriers finished at 16-2, losing to Dartmouth and New Prep. The Crimson demolished Dartmouth twice...