Word: perfecter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jetliner refused to respond to the Russian interceptors' signals, the Soviets had opened fire on the Korean craft. It was their bullets that killed the two passengers and damaged the plane, forcing it to land on the frozen lake near Kem, a landing one passenger described as perfect. After the landing, Captain Kim told his passengers that his instruments had failed and that he had made the mistake of trusting them rather than, presumably, his own experienced judgment that he was off course. In Helsinki, a Korean airline spokesman confirmed that the error was caused by "trouble with...
Almost everyone who approved of the series confessed that the production was not perfect; it was, after all, only TV-and three times better than that medium, with all its bad habits and commercial limitations, usually manages to do. Therefore (or so this argument unfairly implies) it is purist and precious, an ostentation of suffering, to say that the series was flawed, that it did not anguish stylishly enough before the abyss, over the race that went up the chimneys in smoke. The importance of the series was that, however imperfectly, it instructed millions, imprinting upon their memories an evil...
...clear. Says Dancer Robert Weiss, an old friend: "She wanted to have the extension of the greatest dancer, the jump of the best jumper, the turns of the best turner, the dramatic possibilities of the best dramatic ballerina and the comic possibilities of a comedienne. She wanted to be perfect...
Harvard almost put the game away in the 11th inning, but a perfect throw by Iams nailed pinch-runner Dan Bowles at home plate as Bowles tried to score from second base on Jim Peccerillo's single. However, Iam's toss only kept Navy afloat for one inning...
...ideal--solution: turn your shortcomings into assets. To date, Allen has made half a dozen films in which short guys come out on top. By far the best of these is "Play It Again, Sam," the tale of a romantically successful Bogart fan. In Bogart, Allen has found the perfect role model for all the short, ordinary-looking people of the world; after all, for Bogie, life--and dames--are simple. This is one of the few Allen films that Allen himself did not direct, and what is lost in manic humor is gained in coherence and sensitivity. Diane Keaton...