Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John O'Hara. As a novelist, O'Hara has lately faltered, but the more short stories he writes the better he gets, and this newest collection refracts with flawless skill the sights, sounds and thoughts of four decades of American life...
...only connection with athletics is size. But no matter. Her voluptuous, 6-ft. 8½-in. body (52-39-51) and flawless marble complexion are eternal symbols of grace and beauty; so the Japanese government has requested her presence in Tokyo and Kyoto next summer. For Venus de Milo, such a visit would be unprecedented, and it required a d'accord from De Gaulle himself. But everything is set, and following the tradition of Mono. Lisa, she will go on a carefully packed ocean voyage. All this gallivanting-around by Louvre ladies has at least one young Frenchman upset...
...Open Door. The ear is still flawless. "You mean the party that you just got out of their car," says a railroad porter. But what preoccupies him more and more now is compressed portraits of a lifetime. O'Hara once used to open the door to the family living room, glimpse a confrontation, record a riposte driven into the heart of one character by another and slam the door, apparently pleased with himself. Now he walks in and begins describing the furniture of somebody's mind. The perimeter of perceived experience has been expanded by his ever-lengthening...
...straw-hat routine, or spinning head over heels on a giant Roto-Broil of a torture wheel, or running her voice like a caress over a romantic ballad, she has the star quality that transcends marquees and animates legends. In her bearing, timing, suppleness, versatility, she is a flawless professional. Her only wrong move in Jennie is being in Jennie...
Heebner is counting on musicologists and students of the piano to provide him with something of a perpetual trust fund; the records, he thinks, will never go out of date. But flawless and fascinating as they are, careful listeners may find them full of disturbing surprises. Many of the classic works are given performances that are difficult to reconcile with modern piano interpretation. The effect of changing taste and style on the music is startlingly apparent...