Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie with latent violence, he more than compensates for it in the final shootout--a rapid, graphic sequence of knives, bullets and blood, followed by a perversely loving, achingly detailed pan over the scene of the massacre. In this and in the epilogue, Scorsese achieves a near-perfect identification between his hero and his audience; like Travis, we have been aching for this release, and now that it has been granted, we're left cold, drained, and a bit removed from ourselves--like the denizens who haunt the all-night Bellmore Cafeteria...
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen turned the medium in on itself; the confines of the parlor were a perfect metaphor for the confinements of nineteenth century society. An adaptation of Ghosts at the Loeb transforms Ibsen's sitting room into a chic contemporary country home; the end result is a fine production which resembles Ibsen in form but not in sense...
...months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such odors as cod-liver oil, dill pickles and lamb chops. But Gall may soon run into formidable competition. The New York-based Smell This Shirt Co. is working hard to develop marijuana-scented shirts...
...summer long the country has been entirely preoccupied with the Centennial Exhibition, with sewing machines, Japanese vases, popped corn, typewriters and telephones, not to mention incessant praise for those paladins who created this perfect nation, this envied Eden, exactly one century...
Mike Clasby opened the third period, stealing the puck from a Terrier defenseman after just ten seconds of play. He skated by two more Terriers, and dropped a perfect pass on the stick of Murray Dea. Dea's score increased Harvard's lead...