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...flawless picture: the tall, pants-suited woman, attractive in the years before middle age, her hair dyed black, her husky voice speaking well-chosen, mature words. The apartment bright with Florida sun and four children, and comfortable with the acquisitions of tasteful travelers: an inlaid bone chess table from Pakistan, tiny prints from Arabia, a brass samovar from Teheran. She has worked as a nurse and now attends college for a nursing degree; she goes to occasional cocktail parties...
Writing a flawless murder mystery for the stage is probably rarer than committing the perfect crime. Anthony Shaffer has done it in Sleuth. Shaffer, twin brother of Peter Shaffer (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), has written a thriller that is urbanely clever, unashamedly literate, clawingly tense and playfully savage. If it is not the best play of its genre ever, it is neck and neck with the best...
Chasey was no less effective, as he ran the option to perfection, called a flawless game and threw more passes than he has in three years (26), completing 15 for 145 yards and a touchdown...
Rule-Book Attack. It may be that part of Rockefeller's confidence comes from the near-flawless campaign machine that gets him to the right place at the right time. His daily schedule includes a notation on the staff's dress for the day. His advance men provide the hat and Rockefeller produces the rabbit: when he unexpectedly confronted a picket line of firemen recently, his aides produced a public-address system and Rockefeller, who did not cross the line, made a speech that drew applause...
While Harvard's sophomore quarter backs were taking turns going nowhere, Columbia's sophomore quarterback, Don Jackson, was marching the Lions up and down the field. Harvard's defensive secondary played a "flawless. perfect game" according to Farneti. but Jackson still completed his key passes...