Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list. Said she: "Princes are no different from other men; Aly is just a nice boy." Then she explained why her sights are set so high: "It is a biological necessity for me to idolize a man for his accomplishments." Her choice above all others: "Albert Einstein [73] ... the perfect companion . . . the only man who could go to the moon with me and know just exactly where he was all the time...
Booze & Benzedrine. Mike's own pain in the heart is Mollie, a trig little blonde with "small and perfect . . . breasts . . . out of a sweet period of Greek art." She lives among the "beach bums," the has-beens and would-be's of Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's "protege" in a sun-decked beach house on Cortez Beach ("better than Malibu"). Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like...
...sleep on park benches, but often as not he was to be found weekending with the very rich on Long Island or at Newport, a majestic little tramp, a peerless raconteur, an engaging and enigmatic character who read a great deal, played excellent chess and, when sober, was a perfect gentleman...
...light from a projector at the underside of the invisible interface between the two liquids. Instead of passing through, the beam curved downward. When he looked directly into the downward slanting beam, he did not see a round spot of light. He saw an elliptical object, i.e., a perfect "flying saucer...
...exact portrait of Lamiel, the heroine of his last novel. "She is a little too tall and too thin," he noted. "I have seen her between the Bastille and the Porte St. Denis, and in the steamboat from Honfleur to Havre; her head is the perfection of Norman beauty; a superb high forehead, blond cendré [ash-blond] hair, an admirable and faultless little nose, blue eyes not quite big enough, chin narrow but a little too long; her face is a perfect oval and one can only take exception to her mouth, which has somewhat the shape...