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Word: perfectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church (not Rome, but H-E) rounds out the weekend with a far less perfect, but still fascinating movie, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! If you're interested in the Depression film, hit this. And if you're interested in Harry Langdon, hit this. And if you're interested in the musical comedy form, likewise. Rodgers and Hart did the music and lyrics, and the whole picture is done in talking rhyme, which you will either find maddening or charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...present means a choice among a number of inadequate methods," says Wacker. The chief birth control couselor, Ann Bisbee '62, assistant to the director, says the service at UHS "is integrated into a woman's medical care. What we try to tell them is that there are no perfect methods. We try to tell them the facts...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Best Contraceptive Is the Word 'No' | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...fascination with it, Hailey himself is an outsider to the world he writes about--he was born in England and is a Canadian citizen--and understandably he does not have a perfect grasp of the social relations of the American ruling class. Making Roscoe Heyward a Boston Brahmin, an aristocrat, with an only son who is a certified public accountant, may seem to Harvard sensibilities to be ever so slightly off, but it is the kind of minor point that doesn't mean a great deal. Though life in general and Hailey's obsession, class, in particular, are infinitely subtle...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: The Great American Novelist | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...bride choked a bit on the sacramental wine, and one elderly babushka-topped guest kept protesting the presence of a photographer. Otherwise the San Francisco marriage of Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 35, and Electronics Executive Edward Karkar, 43, came off like a perfect pas de deux. Among the guests: Dancers Alexander Minz and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, like Makarova, had once belonged to the Soviet Union's Kirov Ballet. The bride, who had been married prior to her 1970 defection from the Kirov, did not bother with a honeymoon this time around. One day after the ceremonies, she began rehearsals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1976 | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard explosion began with just three minutes left in the second period, when Murray Dea stuffed home a Randy Millen feed to close the gap to 3-2. David MacKinnon tied the game at 19:03 on a perfect two-on-one break with Doug Thompson...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Frosh Skaters Score Seven Straight Goals To Defeat Yale Icemen, 8-3, in Season Finale | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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