Word: imperfect
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FEILINI LONG AGO secured his place in the film patheon, and even so imperfect a film as Roma doesn't begin to jeopardize that, Roma, it is safe to say, will neither add to nor detract from Fellini's reputation. Its successes are as large as its failures are obtrusive. It is, in short, an astonishingly inconsistent film whose hits manage to outnumber its misses, but only just barely...
...their own special ways, Landry and Allen rival Shula for pre-eminence in the delicate art and imperfect science of team building. It may be no coincidence that all three men are particularly respected in the trade as coaches of defense rather than offense. Allen's method, which has its living embodiment in the Redskins' Over-the-Hill Gang, is to trade away draft choices and promising rookies for the experienced veterans who can play his brand of hit-and-run, no-mistakes football. Landry, whose emotional range makes Shula seem almost like a stand-up comic, believes...
...clear-cut withdrawal not only because of the advice they received but also because of their own timid estimates of what the American people could or could not face up to. If the Viet Nam stalemate is a tragedy, Ellsberg suggests, it is because its failures have all been "imperfect." He quotes Theodore Draper's wry observation about the Bay of Pigs as "that rare political/military event, 'a perfect failure...
Track and field will dominate the second part of the Munich program. To the winner of the men's 100-meter dash traditionally goes the title of "world's fastest human." Early this year, when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern...
Shyre's adaptation and Whitmore's performance evoke Will Rogers clearly. Will was a child who exposed the exalted emperors of his time in all their embarrassing nakedness. His humor derived from his innocent exaggeration of the discrepancies between the grandiose pretentions of people and institutions and their imperfect realities. Rogers questioned the value of a college education: "Will college pay? Of course college will pay--it you're a halfback or a basketball player. College athletes sometimes ask me when they should turn pro. I tell them, 'Not until you make as much as you can in college...