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Word: perfecter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grateful Dead Movie. The odds are that everyone in the audience as well as everyone on the screen in this movie will be stoned--conditions perfect for the dose of excellent Dead concert footage that makes up the bulk of the movie. The initial animation sequence, featuring the Omar Khayyam skeleton-and-roses fellow, as well as other Dead album-cover regulars, is pretty impressive whether you're stoned or not. Afterwards, the music is presented unencumbered by the psychedelic claptrap groups like Led Zeppelin have thrown into their movies, or the self-consciousness of an "event" movie like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...University in Social and Political Problems. The eight committees will discuss the role, nature and extent of student opinion and input into administration policy and decisions in each of these areas. But these conference committees have spurred the formation of parallel committees at Harvard. These committees are the perfect opportunity for interested students to find each other and begin working; membership on each of the committees is always open to any Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate...

Author: By Arthur Kyriazis and Mark Shlomchik, S | Title: The Need for Unity | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

Michael Caine and Maggie Smith have never worked with each other be fore, but in the remaining subplot they make a perfect match. Smith gives her best screen performance ever in the role of a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who arrives in Beverly Hills for Oscar night. Alternately buoyant and defeated, youthful and aging, she transforms a potentially campy character into a woman of great complexity and beauty. As her loving husband, an antiques dealer who prefers sex with men, Caine sets off Smith's brittle wit with soothing tenderness. Together these actors prove that a marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Doubles | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Point guard Lisa Bernstein hit a lay-up after a picture-perfect three-on-one break to extend the Harvard lead to 19-8. Manhattanville then called time out, but everyone on the court and the 150 spectators knew that the cagers were on their way to an easy...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Hoopsters Down Manhattanville, 66-32 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...dies during a skiing accident in the Swiss Alps, when he falls over his white cassock and tumbles 13,000 feet down the side of the Matterhorn. In Rome, Jean Cardinal Villot, cardinal camerlengo, assumes control of the Catholic Church for the third time in six months. "Practice makes perfect," the churchman is reported to comment in Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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