Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charon was a standout onstage. One awed critic, reviewing his performance as Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, observed that he could command a scene even when he was "simply standing onstage and watching." As a director, he could bring off the most frantic Feydeau farce with clockwork-perfect timing, achieving maximum impact...
...energizing source of Empire and the womb of a thousand years of peace for mankind." Michael E. Kinsley '72, a second year law student and former Rhodes scholar, says that to the extent that Rhodes's idea was "to turn the future leaders of America into Anglophiles, it makes perfect sense for women to be admitted" to the foundation. Now that three Oxford colleges have gone co-ed, he says, there isn't really any reason for the Trust to remain limited...
...they played in the American League," Lee added, "they would come in third. They're the best team in the world--second only to the Taiwan Little League. They play perfect baseball...
...seems also to have been an ardent member of the Ku Klux Klan, and when he arrived in New Orleans, a friend of his later remembered, he was "the handsomest young man in all New Orleans...the best dressed man, who set the fashion for the male population...the perfect Southern gentleman." At around that time, he worked full-time in an administrative post called adjutant general for the United Confederate Veterans, an organization that had a hard time extracting from the Civil War anything worthy of nostagia. It groped toward finding a usable past by erecting monuments to dead...
...Roger is a brilliant performer," Russell states unequivocally. "He has a curious quality of innocence that makes him perfect for Liszt." Russell's fantasy puts that innocence through some peculiar trials. In the new film, Liszt disappears in the vagina of a paramour ("It's just part of the job," Daltrey maintains); later he sprouts a 10-ft. penis. "A one-foot penis is dirty, but ten feet is funny," says Roger loyally. "There's nothing really all that bad in this movie. I'll let my Mum and kids...