Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McPhee, a fine birchbark is a marvel of craft and complex preindustrial technology that took centuries to perfect. "Their ribs, thwarts and planking suggested cabinetwork," he notes. "Their authenticity seemed built in, sewed in, lashed in, undeniable...
...lovely pre-revolutionary house," Bertha Neustadt said. "It was a glorious setting with rolling hills, just perfect for the wedding...
...Crimson's next scoring rush was capped by a Mike Stewart to Randy Millen cross-ice pass. Millen decked his man and drilled a screen shot that nestled in the corner twines. Harvard's second line of Doug Thompson, Dave Schuster, and Dave Mckinnon teamed up for a picture-perfect goal that closed out the period's scoring...
...Lord Mountararat (a name suggesting the aristocracy's excessive reverence for ancestry) proclaim that "If there is a single institution that is unsusceptible of any improvement whatsoever, it is the House of the Lords." This recalls the Duke of Wellington's remark a half-century earlier that Parliament was perfect--on the eve of the Reform Bill...
...Mein Fuhrer, I can walk again" comes the closest I can think of to the epitaph for the twentieth century. Sellers' other characters, Col. Mandrake, the British exchange officer, and the President, are completely on target. Kubrick's films are all good, but this is his closest approach to perfection. Of course, since his new movie made the cover of Time it's probably going to bomb, but that can't be helped. Dr. Strangelove is the perfect Christmas gift...