Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the problem of composition may be considered a matter of selection. Yet once the choice was made--perhaps destroying three prints of alternative spatial arrangement and then framing the fourth--a particular composition may become so perfect that it's hard to imagine that a real choice has ever been made. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky and his black piano on a white foreground is one of these unquestionable arrangements...
...Townis so ambitious and so often good that it makes one wish it were closer to perfect. For instance, this and every other House production needs, but never gets, ingenious, imaginative lighting effects to help out the necessarily modest sets. (On the Town's sets, designed by W. Chappell and Michael Dyett, feature a clevel mosaic New York Skyline but suffer from being too close to the audience--which is why some brilliant lighting might help...
Despite wayward lighting and some shaky scenery, all eyes remain on Amy Singewald in The Madwoman of Chaillot. And when the evil people are banished from the world, when pigeons fly again, air turns to crystal, grass sprouts on pavements, and perfect strangers hug each other, the shaking scenery seems part of the celebration...
...dunking rule was frankly aimed at Alcindor, the 7-ft. ¹⅜-in. U.C.L.A. sophomore who averaged 29 points a game this season while leading his team to a perfect 30-0 record and the N.C.A.A. championship. Lew does indeed dunk on occasion. But the bulk of his baskets come on tip-ins, lay-ups, jump shots and hook shots-all of which are still perfectly legal...
Less than Perfect. Nordhoff is leaving Volkswagen because he turned 68 in January, an age, he said last week, when "it is not only customary but even a compelling need to think in time about one's successor." The years, unfortunately, have overtaken him at a moment when Volkswagen-like the Wirtschaftswunder itself-is performing at less than capacity...