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Goodwin's strategy is thus not flawless. He doesn't say it is. Someone stepped up at the end of his speech to ask where liberals should be reforming their ranks. "I don't know," said Goodwin, "if I did I'd be there...
...spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape Kennedy fire that killed three astronauts in January...
...Their sacred chants had to be intoned just so; a mistake could ruin everything. Thus, if Vocalist Jitendra Abhisheki seemed ner vous as he came out for a selection of Vedic chants, it was understandable. But his nasal, three-note invocation to Saraswati, goddess of learning and music, was flawless...
...artist always takes on God. That is understandable; if he can convince God of his superiority, the public will be a cinch. When he wrote his challenge to the Deity in 1895, Stephen Crane was only 24, but he had already won his public as the author of the flawless Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He may have been thinking of God as well as the critics when he chortled: "They used to call me that ter rible young rascal, but now they are beginning to hem and haw and smile-those very old coots who used...
...murders revolve around the book's two other supersymbols. The first is Lily, a flawless Aryan beauty who represents the unobtainable goal that drives idealists mad and causes them to commit atrocities in her name. Florian, her cynical panderer, is Brother Death himself. Lily's problem is that she is a nymphomaniac who is unable to achieve orgasm. Florian brings her an endless string of ardent customers whom he kills while they are trying vainly to satisfy the great ideal...