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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somehow got the impression that your reviewer would have preferred a more "modern" locale for the story-perhaps Cuba just prior to the collapse of the Batista regime. I can just see the mountainside love scene. Jordan (Errol Flynn would be perfect in the role) leers at Maria and wheezes: "Baby, this really swings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Kirkland compiled a perfect record of seven victories and no defeats to win the House volleyball championship. Winthrop (6-1) placed second, while Adams (4-3) and Dunster (4-3) tied for third. Rounding out the standings were Leverett (3-4), Lowell (3-4), Dudley (1-6), and Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Leading In Trophy Race | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

...emotions, but it must shun the obvious sound effects. For instance, the tape can carry the sound of glass breaking, but not if the dancer mimes glass breaking. On the other hand, if you show a woman whose heart is breaking, then the sound of breaking glass is perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: And Now, Concrete Ballet | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

What the critters lacked in talent they made up in hard work. They wiggled through more walking lessons than Brigitte Bardot, and rasped themselves raw-handed to perfect the fast draw. Times without number they blasted holes in their own britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim with a pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Perfect Furlough. An engaging encyclopedia of comic cliches, well illustrated by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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