Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Cornell is perfect as the braggart general -- very big and very bass. James Lardner, as the young love interest, has little poise and less animation, but he delivers a strong lyric. Leland Moss plays the part of the funny old lecher Senex as if he were not supposed to be old, lecherous, or funny. As Senex's wife, Gladys Smith has the right looks and voice, but she is a weak comedienne...
...Knight in the Leopard Skin Tariel, the knight in the leopard skin, was the great folk hero of Georgia -before Joseph Stalin came along. To the warlike people of the high wine-and-fruit-growing country between the Black and Caspian seas, Tariel was the perfect combination of vice and virtue. He could slash a man in two with a snap of his whip, slay 10,000 enemies in a single sortie, then weep like a woman at the thought of his own cruelty. Stalin went Tariel one better: he shed no tears. Yet all of Georgia wept when...
...Cards' statistics are so bearish, of course. Halfback Roland, 23, is the N.F.L.'s No. 1 punt returner at 14.2 yds. per runback. He is a talented passer as well as rusher; against the New York Giants last month he hit Flanker Bobby Joe Conrad with a perfect 40-yarder for a TD. Over the season, Quarterback Johnson, 27, has connected on a respectable 53% of his passes; a cool, methodical signal caller, he invests his spare time at Washington University writing a dissertation on plastics for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering...
...point of view, it is unfortunate that she does not want two of Scott, an actor of range and brilliance both on stage (The Merchant of Venice, Desire Under the Elms] and screen (The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove). In Wife, he rises above all the plane foolishness to present a perfect caricature of the square-jawed joe on the Air Force recruiting poster. Curtis and Lisi do well to look competent in his company. And some congratulations are due Director Norman Panama, who keeps this airy nothing whooshing along so briskly that audiences may fail to notice how much...
...22nd picture, at any rate, he plays what the script describes as "the perfect American male": a hot-rock singer who, as somebody remarks with a suggestive smirk, "does things." About all he does on the screen is waggle an aggressive guitar and, in an electronically reconstituted baritone, belt out a series of steamy lyrics ("I'll take the dish I please/ And please the dish I take...