Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the QB controversy, the kicking controversy will die down as well. After a perfect performance last Saturday, it appears as though it is vanishing already. And Mike Lynch is glad of that...
King Lear. Peter Brook's film is superb-he rightly rejects any possible amelioration of Lear's pessimism. He shot the film in Jutland and although it is technically in color the only colors present are black, white, grey and sometimes dark brown. Paul Scofield is adequate though not perfect as Lear, although his "Never, never, never, never, never" is disappointing. Brook (what a long way this is from his version of Midsummer-Night's Dream) cut about 1/3 of Shakespeare's lines and even a few whole scenes, but he was justified by his results. The kind of film...
...toilet breaks. This supposedly forces modern man to look at his existential roots and discover, as Founder Werner Erhard phrases it, that "what is, is." Because of the confusion of names, the Maharishi is also often mistaken for the junior guru, the Maharaj Ji, 17, the pudgy, high-living "Perfect Master" of the Divine Light sect. In contrast to all of the other consciousness-raising groups, TM appears refreshingly dull and commonplace...
Finally, if it's hard-core raunch and roll you seek, you have no further to look than the Orpheum. On Friday, October 10, the triple billing of Foghat, Black Oak Arkansas and Montrose provides the ultimate in crotch rock and is the perfect complement to a bottle of Jack Daniels or Southern Comfort, depending on which part of the country you're from. Foghat sprang from the dissolution of one of the many Savoy Brown combos and added to their knowledge of blues a commercial touch in order to comply with the American audience's cry for boogie...
...example, the Austrians reject the notorious theory of perfect competition as inapplicable and irrelevant to the real world and have developed alternative theories of competition. They also reject the Keynesian macroeconomic models as incapable of sufficiently describing real world events, and instead offer, radically different explanations of business cycles and depressions...