Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nichols at work again. Here Author Murray Schisgal spoofs the couch-prone and their litter-perfect recitations of the Freudian catechism. The combined talents of the director and Actors Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson are eruptively comic...
...suddenly, after 40 years, it all adds up," began the ad for the Herald Tribune Sunday magazine last week. "Whispering, inconspicuous-formal, efficient-but precisely the perfect qualifications for a museum custodian, an undertaker, a mortuary scientist. Thirteen years ago, upon the death of Harold Ross, precisely that difficult task befell William Shawn: to be the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer-for Harold Ross's New Yorker magazine...
...third book, in fact, the "practically-perfect-in-every-way" nanny announced that she wouldn't be returning. At that time, a small boy wrote to Miss Travers, "Nadum, I've just read the third Mary Poppins, you're awful . . . Madum, you shouldn't have done that, you made the children...
...Sucking your thumb without a blanket," he confides, "is like eating a cone without ice cream." Linus is Horatio Alger in reverse: "No problem is so big or so complicated that it cannot be run away from." Snoopy, the dog with the floppy ears and foolish smile, is the perfect hedonist. He dances, skates, jumps rope, hunches like a vulture but above all likes to lie flat on his back on the top of his doghouse awaiting supper -which sometimes includes a dish of sherbet on the side. Snoopy is no great shakes at chasing rabbits...
...almost worshiping cult, contend that Peanuts has gone downhill since Schulz went commercial. But if anything, the strip has improved over the years; both its drawing and satire have sharpened. While Lucy's face is a little fleshier and meaner, Charlie's head is no longer a perfect circle: he is less cute and more pathetic...