Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Thursday-a clear, cool day that was perfect for running-the couple from No. 288 came down the stairs and went loping off to nearby Bernal Park. The agents thought they knew who the two were from sightings the day before, but they still were not sure. "Our pictures of them were almost two years old," says an agent. But when the pair came jogging back home, there was no longer any doubt. The four agents leaped out of the LTD, and the other three came sprinting from the nearby camper. They were armed with pistols, a sawed...
...time reading. He is entirely successful; Pieces of the Frame is pleasant throughout, never jarring. The strongest reaction it produces is an occasional moment of wonderment at the sheer unassuming virtuosity of a particular turn of phrase or paragraph or article. It is all, along with everything else, in perfect good taste...
Rice was priceless when he played. He didn't have the picture-perfect and fluid swing of Lynn, to whom he was always compared. Instead his powerful wrists carved the bat around, hard, and caught it for an instant before bringing it back, hard. He swung it like a scythe, and once I watched him connect full force and hit the ball up and over the flagpole in deep center, still going up at the 400-foot mark...
...Sphinx (because "that is the natural place for a woman"), Gescheidt has now fitted the former First Lady into the Mona Lisa. "The Mona Lisa is forever, and people are always interested in Jackie," said the artist. "She has the same inscrutable smile; it's dead perfect...
...Sycamore to Minnie L. Montgomery and Leola to Miss Minnie Wade suggest. But he craved the comfort and security of marriage. His first failed: the former Belle Hayden had no interest in his music, and their baby daughter died in infancy. His second marriage, to Lottie Stokes, seemed perfect, and Lottie stood by him as he exhausted himself and his money trying to get Treemonisha produced. The only way he could get it published was to do it himself. Burned out at 48, Joplin died in 1917 in an asylum from complications of syphilis...