Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throw them he will, if often from afar. "There will be phone calls from wherever he is," says Backe. The new chief executive, who is 44, seems a perfect choice for tandem harness with Paley. Brash Arthur Taylor had a homing instinct for the limelight; he could not be trusted to refrain from redecorating Paley's castle. But Backe is unassuming, efficient, extremely bright and content to be an inner-sanctum manager. "It isn't a matter of my letting Bill influence me," says he. "I do take his advice and we agree on most things." Backe cannot...
While approaching a less than perfect drive on the eighth, Spence said: "I play very well during the summer. I really want to hit it pure this year. God's punishing...
There are few mortals past or present as knowledgeable about the golf swing as Fitzgibbons. "I've put so much time into trying to find a perfect swing," he says. "I've tried to isolate every single move--to break the golf swing into 400 parts and make each perfect." Nor has he arrived at the end of his search for the flawless swing. In fact, despite taking some lessons from the renowned teaching pro Claude Harmon, he feels his swing has lost some of its youthful fluidity...
...attack is starting. "Let's see," someone said. "We need a cause for the next few years, something we can work ourselves into a really indignant rage over. Hey, here's one that's perfect. It's an entirely new field, so it'll be in a crude state, open to lots of misinterpreation and distortion, and no one will know anything about it so they'll believe what we tell them. I think they call it 'sociobiology...
...work. Then we would play music, and she would become inventive, let herself go. It was like the old silent days when they would play sad violin music for a sad scene and happy violin music for a happy scene." Brooks believes her Muzak-inspired performance, close to perfect, is proof of her versatility. But Diane, reverting to type, admits that she was scared. "I was very anxious before I made this movie," she says. "I worried-worried. And I mean, I worried...