Word: perfecter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, The Serpent's Egg is really quite a bad film. Bergman wishes to explore the roots of Nazism-"the al ready perfect reptile" that could be discerned, as one of the characters says, in the egg to which the title refers. And so once again the audience is treated to views of Germany in the early '20s-inflation rampant, democracy feeble, sex decadent, anti-Semitism emergent, National Socialist bullyboys beginning to feel their oats...
...political issue. It is not a vehicle for TV stars seeking to plug an upcoming series or special. It is not a violent action spree or a self-congratulatory exercise in middlebrow culture. Verna: U.S.O. Girl is just a small story-too small for a theatrical film but perfect for the tube-engagingly told by talented people. It can stand as a model of what made-for-TV movies could and should...
Some of the moves Estey will have to perfect for the judges include double and triple toe jumps, double flip jumps, loop jumps, flying camels, flying sit spins, triple salchows, cross foot spins and a serpentine footwork sequence...
...even in moments of quiet. The rest of his sorcery was soon at work. The concerto's immense hurdles (lightning-fast chord sequences, densely complicated ornaments) were leaped smoothly, and the occasional moments of romantic treacle were turned into pure honey. Cascades of notes ar ranged themselves in perfect, multicolored symmetry. The fortissimo climaxes arrived like evening thunder. Nobody else can hit a piano that hard and produce something more than an ugly...
...December, Soyuz 26 was launched and it successfully reached the space station. A week later controllers could breathe a collective sigh of relief. During a space walk outside the ship, Grechko inspected the other port and reported it to be in perfect order...