Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving great works of art always stirs fears-vivid thoughts of a plane's crashing and burning with a considerable part of the work of Van Gogh, or the Pietà gently cracking in two along some unknown flaw line (although technicians, having bombarded the sculpture with X rays and cobalt 60 gamma rays, have discovered it to be the perfect piece of marble that Michelangelo said it was). Beyond fears for the safety of the art, its sponsors are given to worry over whether the likes of World...
...field. Gunnoe, the team's leading scorer last season, made six goals and six assists: Wood scored six times and assisted on three goals. Along with Williams, Gunnoe and Wood are the only reliable shooters on the team, and that is the Crimson's major flaw...
...rally in Marysville, Rene Carpenter ticked off a long list of Glenn's virtues, cried, "Why must politics be something dirty? Why can't you believe that there is such a man-almost too good to be true? I know that maybe that's his flaw. We've heard the 'Jack Armstrong' remarks, but you have to know this man to appreciate...
...dollops of sentiment and a formula ending flaw the otherwise engaging and perceptive script by Nora and Nunnally Johnson. Though droll performances are rung up by Prentiss, Sellers and Angela Lansbury (as Tippy's pampered, promiscuous mother), all are up against a force of nature as potent as Disneyland. Director George Roy Hill is obviously happy to let the camera ogle while his half-pint scene stealers do their stuff. And why not? It's grand larceny...
...Pierre Laval was not only "the shrewdest, most forceful personality in Vichy," but an intensely patriotic Frenchman whose tragic flaw was not :hat he sympathized with Hitler but that ie had "astonishing ignorance about the Germans and supreme confidence in his ability to outsmart them...