Word: parfaitement
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...LORD he reigned in Ov1 Ofys³ sphere, Ful oft strove he to mak thyngs parfait clere.4 But wonder, though it get him legal scrapes, He, verraily, refus to clere The Tapyse...
...That is, except when he mak thyngs parfait obscur...
...funniest sketches, a parfait of incongruities, is Columbus' discovery of America. Trying to convince Queen Isabella-Queen Isabel Johnson, that is-that she should cough up for the trip west, Columbus tells her that without America, there would be no Ray Charles. That sends her into a swivet. "Ray Charles?" she screeches. "You gonna find Ray Charles? He in America?" "Damn right," says Chris. After writing him out a traveler's check so that he can buy the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria at the Army & Navy Store, a zonked-out Isabel announces...
...hand-held camera intrudes rudely into a Brooklyn bedroom. There, a pregnant young wife is but a few days away from the birth of her first child; she giggles as her husband presses a parfait glass to her abdomen in hopes of hearing his baby. The wife is Debbie North, a commercial artist and the sole support of her husband Bruce, a painter of unbought paintings. The people are real, and so is the rest of the cinéma-vérité film that follows their practice sessions at a natural-birth clinic and their visits...
...TALKED TOO MUCH, by Amelia Elizabeth Walden (Westminster; $3.75). A brisk spy yarn, set in the Middle East, in which the double martini is replaced by "a fine towering strawberry parfait...