Word: perfecter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration proposal to sell jet aircraft to the Arabs (as well as to Israel) is a perfect illustration of the degree to which a Middle East peace settlement is in the long-term interests of the U.S. The congressional forces opposing the sale TAR of planes to Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been strengthened by the latest hostilities in the Middle East, and may manage to veto the deal. At the same time, the U.S. is negotiating with the Saudis to expand their petroleum production in the light of the increased fuel needs expected in the 1980s. But such...
...would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped plan Moro's abduction. Noting the similarities to the kidnaping last September of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne and the military precision of the Moro operation, one official observed that "such a perfect crime means that it was accomplished with the skill of picked...
...novel's narrator, Teddy Ottinger, records the final months of her species in the White House, where the five "Perfect Masters" have established themselves in an elegant hell: "The logistics of survival in a dead world," she says, "are complex and, thank God, distracting...
...deaths of our favorite characters (although this is annoying), but because the storyline is so slack. Screenwriter John Farris has plotted the film with routine situations that are unworthy of the marvelous ingredients, and although DePalma has structured several dazzling sequences, loaded with bursts of subjective camerawork and rhythmically perfect editing, there are too many dead spots for the suspense to build properly...
...Carrie Snodgrass must be his audacious reply to those who would put all-American zombies like Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in similar roles. Kirk Douglas's face has never seemed longer, and that dimple never more defiant. With the stature and angry leer of a depraved baboon (perfect for a DePalma hero), and a cuddly, newfound warmth, Douglas looks like a MAD magazine caricature of himself, and that is somehow very appropriate. Carrie Snodgrass, in her first appearance since Diary of a Mad Housewife, walks off with the movie, and if she can bring this much warmth and humanity...