Word: near-perfect
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...through the water right on keel. Rowers adjust to the imperfections in their teammates' rowing technique, so that after racing a season together, the boat is almost perfectly balanced, and there is as little resistance as possible to the shell cutting through the water. The crew had achieved this near-perfect swing after months of working together as a unit, but it all disappeared with the loss of Howard and McKenna...
...PURELY technical level, Chabrol has achieved a near-perfect control over his medium. Frame by frame he has created a photographically beautiful movie. The beauty is not of the slick sort that many commercial directors so easily mass-produce nowadays, but instead it evolves from the way Chabrol's cameras treat the spatial relationships between persons and things. It's as if the director turned the literary search for the mot juste into cinemagraphic terms and then succeeded in his quest. The excellence of technique is hardly for its own sake; like the most mature directors Chabrol has subtly integrated...
Harvard played 17 1/2 innings of near-perfect baseball in the College World Series at Omaha last weekend, but it was the other half an inning that ensured the Crimson's quick elimination from the tournament...
Cold Civil War. Certainly Giscard has been offered an invitation to greatness. For nearly two decades, his country has stood as a near-perfect model of stability in Western Europe. But it was a stability achieved at the cost of political atrophy. With his victory, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing will bring a new generation into French political life. He is a modern practitioner of politics who wants to lay to rest the long cold civil war between the French left and right. To succeed, Giscard must persuade the other, less affluent half of France to follow...
...freshmen lightweights also went out in style. When they move up to new divisions next year, they can look back to a great finish of their freshman season. Rowing in near-perfect conditions, helped by a slight tail wind, the freshmen barreled through the competition, beating Rutgers by open water...