Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agitprop. The players invest the slapdash plot with wit and perfect timing. Wheeling on crutches necessitated by a recent stage fall, Lloyd's Bill has a saturnine piratical mien worthy of Long John Silver. Though slightly reedy of voice, Meryl Streep renders the Brecht lines with impeccable intelligence. The marvel of the evening is the Kurt Weill score, arguably superior to that of The Threepenny Opera...
...Perfect Recall. Why, then, is The Greatest such an agreeable experience? The answer is that The Greatest, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali - who created this role originally for sportswriters and polished it before a thousand television audiences - has now immortalized it on celluloid with perfect ease and confidence. In real life he has become a bit of a bore, especially as his skills in his higher calling, as perhaps the most artful heavy weight in history, have slipped. But .if he can no longer quite remember what to do in the ring, his recall of his marvelous performances outside it is perfectly...
With regard to G.E., the ACSR mustered a very slim majority in favor of a total South African withdrawal resolution. G.E., among other things, had a less than perfect employment record in South Africa, and this was a key factor. The Harvard Corporation, however, was unsure of the merits of the proxy proposal and, breaking only slightly with the ACSR, again took the middle ground of abstention on the issue...
...American Graffiti Lucas did more than that. He worked out his entire adolescence. Set in Modesto, Calif, where he grew up, the film is the perfect image of bored, rootless teen-agers in 1962, the year he finished high school. Says Lucas: "I spent my teen years cruising McHenry Avenue in Modesto." At that time his only ambition was to race cars, but a near-fatal crash two days before graduation forced him to spend three months in a hospital. When he came out, he decided to go to college. After two years at Modesto Junior College, he entered...
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