Word: flawlessness
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...there was no question that the East now mattered. Asia has hosted the Summer Games twice before - Tokyo '64 and Seoul '88 - but this Olympics represents the aspirations of one-fifth of humanity. For 60 minutes, more than 15,000 Chinese performers marched and twirled and beamed with such flawless precision that it was as if the previous five millennia of Chinese history were merely a dress rehearsal for this moment...
...Given the gravity of Petrella's condition and the publicity her case has generated, Sarkozy wrote Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi in July, promising to deliver Petrella, but asking that "a measure of clemency be considered for her, as soon as possible", given her flawless behavior since coming to France. Days later, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano ruled out any quick pardons for Petrella, citing her "numerous and extremely serious terrorist crimes". That's a view supported by the outraged Italians who were injured or lost loved ones in Red Brigades attacks and want to see justice finally served...
...chased by network anchors and doling out interviews that kept the story humming, the trip was everything Obamaland wanted: Their man was firm, humble, measured, accessible and careful not to get into, as he told CNN Friday, "the business of second guessing our President" while overseas. It wasn't flawless - his campaign got itself into a minor but unnecessary disagreement with the Pentagon on Friday about why Obama scheduled then cancelled a visit to a military hospital in Germany. But most things broke his way: Iraqi leader Nouri al-Maliki all but mimicked his timetable for redeployment of troops; French...
...first men she dated: Louis Jones, a minister's son. Led by her mother, little Gail became part of a new and vibrant phase of black bourgeois life, in which respectability became the dancing partner of chic. As Lena moved up in the world, displaying her flawless cheekbones and elegant diction at bistros from New York's Cafe Society to Hollywood's Little Troc, she and her daughter crossed most of the boundaries set up by racial discrimination. Sailing on ''every ship of the French Line,'' they mingled offstage with the celebrities Lena had enchanted onstage in London and Paris...
...quartets are less stylistically unified than the six early quartets of Op. 18, in which Beethoven explored and exorcised his Haydnesque roots, or the five late quartets, in which he boldy ventured where no composer had gone before. The Stuttgart-based Melos Quartet offers cleanly phrased readings distinguished by flawless ensemble. If the listener could wish for more tonal opulence in a brooding work like the E Minor Quartet, Op. 59, No. 2, it is hard to argue with the precise articulation of Op. 59, No. 3's whirlwind obstacle course of a finale. As a bonus, the recording includes...