Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their cadence may still not be perfect, but Navy trainees are once again marching to classes and meals at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center...
...while they laughed maniacally outside. Welcome to summer camp. One of them, Lori, was a real space shot; she babbled in a soft, coy voice and wandered about in heavy makeup, glassy eyed. The other, Tamara, was an aggressive, competitive overachiever who raved about her work, her perfect, clean-cut, overachiever boyfriend, and her virginity...
...book has all the style and plot interest of "As the World Turns." Each character has four important episodes--discovering sex in college, getting married, discovering problems with sex in marriage, and having kids. Each also has a quirk, a flaw in her otherwise perfect Radcliffe patina. Emily is neurotic, Daphne has epilepsy, Annabel likes sex and alcohol too much, and Chris is obsessed with a homosexual. By the time they get back to Cambridge for their reunion, these tiny flaws have created major messes...
...while they laughed maniacally outside. Welcome to summer camp. One of them, Lori, was a real space shot; she babbled in a soft, coy voice and wandered about in heavy makeup, glassy eyed. The other, Tamara, was an aggressive, competitive overachiever who raved about her work, her perfect, clean-cut, overachiever boyfriend, and her virginity...
Lately, no one has used children so well, or so lovingly, as François Truffaut. Jean-Pierre Léaud-one of Agee's "perfect people"-found the full range of adolescent feeling in The 400 Blows. The roots of the performance could be traced to Jean Vigo, whose Zero for Conduct (1933), made with no professional kids, is still the screen's greatest poem to youthful anarchy. The 400 Blows exerted a strong influence on George Roy Hill, who in 1964 made The World of Henry Orient, which is about two lovesick Manhattan schoolgirls. As Merrie...