Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the summer Hollywood will remember as the one when people came back into movie theaters in droves. One smash hit after another is building the biggest box-office crush moviemakers have ever seen, and there is no end to the lines in sight. The perfect summer movie -light, fast moving and uncomplicated -usually turns up every year or two in the form of the "monster hit," that film everybody has to see. In 1975 it was Jaws. Last year it was Star Wars, the most successful film of all time. This year it is Star Wars again. Sweeping...
...brilliant impersonator in movies, scores highest in constricted caracatures where much is made of a given character's lack of awareness (particularly personal awareness--a lack of self-consciousness). In other words, Sellers is at his best when he is smallest, and Clouseau's oblivious, unfazed determination is the perfect vehicle for him. But whenever these little men become romantic, as in Edwards' The Party or Strikes Again, Sellers begins to take himself more seriously (his narcissism, unfortunately, bleeds through even when these characters fumble their love-making attempts), and in Strikes Again he lost his timing and embarrassed himself...
Some human beings are gifted with perfect pitch, others with total recall. Ben Skora can hand-build just about anything, without benefit of blueprint. A high school dropout, one-time recording company owner, Skora has for the past 30 years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other behavioral problem cases with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years...
...priests from the ministry; he called the exodus his "crown of thorns." Many of the priests left in order to marry, but Paul firmly resisted the suggestion that the centuries-old tradition of priestly celibacy be made optional. He extolled the celibate life as "the precious divine gift of perfect continence." Still, he left the door open for a successor to move further. He permitted the ordination of married deacons, who could exercise many ministerial functions, and he conceded the possibility of ordaining married men in mission countries...
...moving into profitable niches overlooked by the bigger carriers. Southwest, a small regional carrier, has applied for routes to Chicago with a regular fare 50% below that of the major airlines, and it could perhaps make a marginal profit on that heavily traveled run. Freddie Laker is the perfect example of a small operator who chose a lucrative route and cut rates to fill his planes beyond the break-even point. But Laker incurs none of the costs of providing service to small communities that could not fill up his planes...