Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many experts to be one of the premier free-skating performers in the world. Petkevich finished fourth in the annual event barely missing third place. Fourth at the end of the compulsory school figures which count for half of the competition. Petkevich electrified the Canadian crowd with an almost flawless routine. His marks, all or better, were not enough to give him third...
...dishonesty which everywhere stultify the day-to-day process of living. If the above joke seems in bad taste, it is because Nixon and the war are, themselves, obscene. What Shapiro lacks in propriety, he attempts to make up in truthfulness. The result is an exciting, though certainly not flawless work...
Sabre men Gordon Ruttledge and Ken Hetzler each won two of three events to support Valenzuela's flawless performance. In foil Dave Fichter also picked up two wins in three bouts. Fichter's triumphs were impressively decisive because he won both 5-0, not allowing the opposition to score a touch...
...fracture from a fall in his Manhattan apartment. At the age of three, Rabin demonstrated that he had perfect pitch by plinking notes on the piano to correspond to any sound he heard. At 14, he made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, launching his professional career with a flawless rendition of Wieniawski's Concerto No. 1. The next year came the first of his 84 appearances with the New York Philharmonic. The pressures of being a prodigy took their toll, and in 1963 Rabin suffered a nervous breakdown that interrupted his concert tours for two years...
...Blue Memphis Suite (Warner Brothers), which features the incomparable singer-pianist Memphis Slim, backed by guitarist Peter Green (Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac), organist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Duster Bennett on harmonica, Chris Spedding, Pete Winfield, and others. The performance of everyone, especially producer Philippe Rault, is absolutely flawless; the juxtaposition of early Forties blues structure with ultramodern instrumentation and arrangement completely transcends the concept of mere revival. It is a tour de force of textural and harmonic complexity within the blues idiom. On side one, expatriate Memphis Slim tells the story of his birth in Tennessee, migration...