Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foibles of theatrical luminaries, such as Katharine Cornell's tendency to flutter her hands immediately before going onstage. Artists like Sir John Gieglud and Alfred Lunt are for the author magnificent human beings. Olivier in particular emerges not so much as the world's finest actor but as a perfect gentleman, treating young, awed actors as collegues, drinking with them, exchanging stories with them and giving advice. The gift of great actors is first and foremost their love and devotion to their fellow actors and their craft...
...other fella. But I did sign a $1 billion tax cut, the largest in the history of California. I have given you four years of prosperity, and now I'm asking you to let me consolidate, to give me four more years. I don't say everything is perfect. I'm a human being. I make mistakes. I change my mind. But I listen to you and I get things done." Later in the afternoon, Brown joined some black politicians at a meeting in a shopping center in Riverside. "Did you watch the game?" he asked as he shook hands...
Secondly, the use of nuclear power necessitates our complete and perfect control of this resource to avoid massive and perhaps final disaster. Nuclear power advocates will admit that the chance of nuclear meltdown exists, though it is a very, very slim possibility. Are nuclear power plants as safe as Hooker Chemical Company believed its disposal methods at the Love Canal were in 1962? No one can know. In this sense, man's ignorance may seal a fate he has shaped...
Finally, with 12 minutes left in the game, Ellen Hart took a perfect centering pass from St. Louis and jammed it into the near corner for Harvard's second goal--the eventual game-winner...
...obsessive team, so narrowly focused on winning an elusive pennant that they are too inflexible to cope with sudden injuries, slumps and clubhouse conflicts. They are tragic heroes in a city full of tragic heroes. And so, for Boston baseball fans, the Red Sox are true heroes, the perfect cast of real-life drama...