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Word: flawless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...song about a gala party where saints and sinners mingle ("Richard III is comparing his hump with Quasimodo's"). The sole performer, as both Markham and his demonic adversary, is Dennis Locorriere, erstwhile singer-songwriter of the pop group Dr. Hook. His energy is boundless, his timing flawless, his depravity seemingly bottomless in this bewitching romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Having A Hell of a Time | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...front of a capacity Homecoming crowd in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell plays a flawless game, blanking the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Year Of Streaks | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard men's soccer team played a nearly flawless game in defeating Boston University, 2-0, yesterday at Ohiri Field. Senior strikers Derek Mills and Nick D'Onofrio supplied the offensive firepower, and the Crimson defense provided the shutout...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: M. Booters Bounce B.U. | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...almost flawless public performance is all the more admirable for hiding his true nature: short-fused, outspoken, archconservative. As a senior British official who knows him well puts it, "He has all the prejudices of a white Englishman of his age and social standing." Notes a friend: "Denis calls a spade a bloody shovel, though these days he does it privately. It requires an almost superhuman effort for him to keep the old mouth shut in public. Loyalty to Margaret and common sense make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Is This Denis a Menace? | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...sounds he entertained in his head. In his determination to control everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process, a man possessed, and not only by genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Mahler to the Elephants | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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