Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uniform Time Act, passed by Congress a year ago, that requires all states to follow statewide Daylight Time-unless the respective legislatures enact exempting laws. Last week as the hour struck to turn the clocks ahead one hour, the chaos was less, but compliance was far from perfect. Forty-five states are now keeping D.S.T.; still out of step are Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan...
Helicopters have won high marks in Viet Nam doing the chores they were designed for: carting supplies, ferrying troops, evacuating wounded. But, decked out with bolt-on guns and rocket launchers, the shaking, rattling and rolling choppers are less than perfect for close-in fire support. Looking for a solution, the Army last year awarded an $86 million AAFSS (Advance Aerial Fire Support System) development contract to a company that, until recently, had never been in the helicopter business at all: Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...
...falling with the central character, by making the stage what it is -- a stage -- and by having its cast stretch out, physically as well as metaphorically, into the audience. The blocking, which capitalizes on what are usually limitations in Agassiz Theatre, combines realism with esthetic pleasure, and modulates in perfect coordination with the play. Mayer's fight scene, for example, achieves its power by hurtling all the actors into a gaint, sprawling pretzel. The play-within-a-play is staged in ridiculous straight lines and circles which punctuate the comparative realism of the rest of Plebeians...
...time for Mailer to write his "big novel," and it is said that he's hard at work on it. He's 44, and his moment is at hand; can he produce a book so large in vision, so perfect in execution, that the entire fabric of the national character is irrevocably altered? In its agony, the country cries out, he feels, for such a book, such a man. Mailer thinks he's got the guts and the talent to pull it off. That he has the personal grace and the devotion of a champion is conceded...