Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imitation is not even close to perfect. Even in this simple beat pattern, the most basic part of a conductor's technique, Chen's movements reveal a grace and depth of concentration that make his students' hands appear tense and stubby by comparison...
...Wolfe and Ed Sturbin. Ted Wolfe learned to play vibes with Gary Burton, and there's little better recommendation these days than that. Like Burton, Wolfe has a studied, subtle approach to his music, and the vibes provide the perfect vehicle for it. He and bassiat Sturbin have been working on transcriptions of piano music for vibes and bass, an interesting idea at least. Combined with their fine renditions of standards and original work, it promises a good evening Wednesday at Papillon, 1353b Beacon St. in Brookline...
...glamour gluttons of Beverly Hills, whose excursions into the technology of beauty have popularized such treatments as acid peels, sandpapering and surgical nips, are pushing a new aid to the perfect face. It is Preparation H, the widely advertised ointment sold over the counter to shrink hemorrhoids (painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs...
Another clue to some of the show's inclusion is that the school was eventually disbanded by the Nazis for the political beliefs expressed in its manifestoes. Its ideal was to promote egalitarian social conditions by providing visual continuity at every level of life. For example, a perfect start to a Bauhaus day would be to wake up in the morning to coffee in a mass-produced coffee cup designed to blend pleasantly with that day's newspaper type, whose forms in turn would intermesh smoothly with the rest of the Kitchen, the house--in short, the world, Waking...
...London's Ring a sword is a sword, a spear is a spear, and Fafner the dragon is a proper dragon-a 35-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high beauty of a monster that requires eight stagehands to operate. London's conception is not perfect: he may not put the Valkyries on wheels, but having them cavort like chorus girls is not an improvement. There is no bear for Siegfried to tug, alas, nor does Brünnhilde ride a horse into the pyre. But she does sleep on a genuine jagged peak-not just some symbolic platform...