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Word: perfectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always heard "nobody's perfect." Maybe Nadia Comaneci has disproved that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection? | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...perfect! Not once did Nadia cry or giggle or show emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection? | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...Miller. The Hollywood sharpies who financed it nearly walked out on the rushes. They should have let it all seep in instead, because one doesn't throw words around in calling this movie "haunting." The look and feel of a real old West mining town are both perfect, from Warren Beaty's cowardly lion of a gunslinger to the orientals segregated across the tracks. And if you don't understand why it moves so lethargically in spots--many of my friends disliked it for this reason--link up the slow editing with Julie Christie's daily trips to the houka...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Film | 8/13/1976 | See Source »

...electoral votes, he would have to count on huge majorities in ethnic centers in the industrial North--states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. And on the important "social" issues which might appeal to that constituency--amnesty, abortion, busing, prayer in the schools, etc.--Schweiker's views are in perfect accordance with Reagan's. In such a campaign--which would bear an eerie resemblance to Nixon's 1972 "acid, amnesty and abortion" strategy--Schweiker could be a big help...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Pulp | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...Richardson, 56, would deflect most Watergate-related attacks by virtue of his Saturday Night Massacre heroics. Treasury Secretary William Simon, 48, would draw attention to Ford's success with the economy and is a strong manager. Besides, cracked a wag during a meeting with Ford: "Simon's perfect; he's a Catholic with a Jewish name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A GAMBLE GONE WRONG | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

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