Word: imperfectibility
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Also, in defense of the line, “I can see your sadness” (I apparently have more invested in this debate than even I expected), you seem to forget its context. It was delivered by an immigrant worker whose imperfect English was intended to make it sound somewhat stilted, excusing any loss of impact derived therein. I present to you another line from Adaptation that single-handedly trumps any off-day Kaufman offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl...
...little flourishes. The sample, like much of Kanye’s sources, is sublimated into a wisp of texture that sticks indelibly in your mind. It’s that sensitivity to sound itself that gives these potentially awkward mini-epics their fragile beauty. They’re pretentious, imperfect and overwrought, and flawlessly...
...interests, a violent tour schedule and way too much alcohol, they lose control—and, naturally, start setting stuff on fire. On their second album, Kick up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose, the Cooper Temple Clause capture this incendiary chaos while forging a fascinating, if imperfect product...
...More than a dozen other flights to or from Paris, London, Los Angeles, Washington, Riyadh and Mexico City were scrapped in a week and a half, starting on Christmas Eve. It was a strange period of aviation lottery that may become more commonplace as authorities continue to hunt, with imperfect information, for would-be al-Qaeda hijackers. All told, at least 27 flights were canceled, detained, rerouted or tailed by fighter jets--ready, as a last resort, to shoot down the planes should they deviate from their courses. We may never know whether an attack was prevented. What is clear...
Meacham's study is a close-focus historical tracking shot of the two men, very human, heroic and imperfect, moving along through--and making--great history. --By Lance Morrow