Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nights ago and it was filled with eleven-year-olds. Why? Who knows?" Thompson, who is only 32 himself, does offer and explanation for the story's appeal, and his answer is doubtless the right one. "There is tremendous love in the film. It is about imperfect people loving each other. The Henry Fonda character is a real bastard when you get down to it, but Hepburn puts up with him anyway. Everyone wants someone like that-to put up with him until he dies...
...piece throughout"-that, certainly, was true of De Stijl design. Its aesthetic was seamless, from painting to furniture to architecture, where it made few concessions to the flabby and imperfect human body. Gerrit Rietveld's penitential chairs, rigidly geometric and painted in their bright, winking primaries, go far beyond the ordinary level of Bauhaus discomfort as practiced in the '20s. Yet one cannot imagine Rietveld's masterpiece, the tiny Schroder house in Utrecht, being furnished with anything else. Such interiors were not open to redecoration: the pattern is absolute, the space a sermon. One would need...
...without benefit of electricity. Once he gets the contraption running, he starts hauling chunks of frozen water to neighboring villages, trying to impress the natives with a tangible example of progress in the tropics. He is messianic about his ice: "It's the beginning of perfection in an imperfect world. It makes sense of work. It's free. It's even pretty. It's civilization." Unfortunately, the machine that churns it out depends on what Allie calls "poison," a highly volatile mixture of hydrogen and enriched ammonia. It is an accident waiting to happen...
Saul Bellow falters somewhat in The Dean's December. It will not stand as his best book, probably not even one of his best three of four. It is, nonetheless, reassuring in a strange way that the shortcomings of the work are due to experimentation and imperfect exploration and not to any diminution of the genius which made him one of the country's finest writers...
Busing plainly has proven an imperfect answer to much school segregation. Particularly in the Northern cities in which it became widespread in the mid-1970s, its impact has been mixed, and is has frequently stirred up new racial tensions. But in some cities--particularly those of the Deep South, where it helped break up century-old segregation--it has had impressive effects...