Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American optimism. "Here's for the plain old Adam, the simple genuine self against the whole world." So Ralph Waldo Emerson toasted the American spirit. But the "old" Adam, that rugged and predatory individualist, in his current incarnation is caught in a dilemma: how to survive an increasingly imperfect, not to say hostile, environment...
Special provisions for special interests must be included if we wish to fashion a republican government that will work fairly for all, not in some fortune-teller's vision of a future perfect world, but in our imperfect world today...
...work harder and stick with pumpkin. Most cherry ice cream contains bright red bits of cherries that have been embalmed, as maraschinos are-bleached white with formaldehyde and then dyed. Breyers and other producers of the natural article make do with the real thing-dark red to black, imperfect and not dyed. At the other end of the frozen rainbow from Breyers are Marty Rex and Marcel Arsenault. They were writing their doctoral dissertations in molecular biology ten years ago at the University of Colorado at Boulder, when Arsenault's homemade ice cream turned out to be so popular...
...person who knows war only." An optimist offers proof that homo sapiens is on the ascent: "After all, we were once apes and now we're human. It's a long distance between a gorilla and Mahatma Gandhi." If ridicule is used to illuminate the cast imperfect, Singer is not afraid to turn it on himself...
...Four Seasons is Alan Alda's promising, if imperfect directorial debut. The promise and the very real pleasures of the film derive from its eagerness to explore the mid-life passage with good-humored civility. Alda is particularly good at examining the male sensibility. Cariou's philanderer is troubled by the directions in which his sexuality has driven him, puzzled by the ways in which marriage has ill used his wife as well as himself. Weston's worrier is rich and touching as it becomes clear that his comic fussings over his diet and his money...