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...bride. The more recent traditions of hazing, humiliation and debauchery - often consuming entire weekends and involving travel to an exotic destination such as Las Vegas or its nearest available facsimile - became a staple of bad '80s sex comedies. (The 1984 Tom Hanks vehicle Bachelor Party hit the genre's perfecta, featuring beer, drugs, strippers, an ill-fated donkey and MTV video vixen Tawny Kitaen.) (Watch TIME's video "Beer Pong Strikes Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bachelor Parties | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

...eyes deceive me, or do we have the possibility of seeing an Ivy three-peat, a perfecta trifecta, a…something else that’s really awesome involving three...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Time to Unleash Crimson Dragon | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...couple months ago, I boxed a four-dollar 7-2perfecta. The 7 dog won. The 2 dog lost a photofinish for second place. Another two inches and Iwould've won a hundred bucks...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Softball Team: Blazing Its Own Trail | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...gloom, however. VEB Polygraph is a remarkable success story -- a sort of Katarina Witt of East German industry. The five principal enterprises of this former state conglomerate -- Planeta, Plamag, Zirkon, Brehmer and Perfecta-will now be run separately. All make sophisticated printing equipment, and all are international leaders in their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: The Big Merger | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...Donna Perfecta, by Benito Perez Galdos...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: The Leisure of the Theory Class | 5/26/1982 | See Source »

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