Word: paragoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
...cameos are real scene-stealers, though, with first-place going hands down to Lara Palevitz as Felix's dream version of his yet-to-arrive blind date. Palevitz plays her as a paragon of the 1940's cigarette girl ultra-bimbo and draws many a chortle...
Employees again point to Yale's dental plan as a paragon. Yale pays for the entire cost of diagnostic and preventive dental work and 80 percent of the fees for fillings or extractions. In effect, Harvard's program funds only two-thirds of the cost of these services...
...blessed in having a sensitive, if occasionally melodramatic cast. Lisa Langford is is both clever and witty as Dr. Livingstone, the psychiatrist assigned to Agnes' case and probably one of the more endearing chainsmokers ever to grace the stage. She becomes the one reliable narrator in the play, a paragon of humor and good sense in an otherwise unrelievedly gothic atmosphere of religious excess. Her exploration of Agnes' past and her search for an alternate ending becomes that of the audience. She is reality personified, confronting and dissecting the ideal...
...should betoken "spirituality" are bound to be put off by the materialist cast of mind that lends its here-and-now toughness to even the most florid of Stella's works. Relentlessly inventive, marred only by the glaring, grinding overcomplication of some of his pictorial machines, he is a paragon of mental horsepower. His show affirms that no painter need be the prisoner of the ends of art history...