Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funny Girl. It's been a long, long time As I remember, the first half of this film a movie biography of vaudevillian Fanny Brice, shines and dazzles; very upbeat, very funny, the perfect showcase for the kitschy comic charms of its star, Barbara Streisand. But toward the middle the story starts to dim, at first imperceptibly, then markedly, until it has receded into a depressing and self-indulgent darkness. I am left with two images. One is of Barbara Streisand's overripe features mugging and straining as young Fanny auditions for her first show. Hilarious The other...
...piled and pinned with a flower, sits as Makeup Man Way Bandy, an old friend, dips his fingers into tiny pots of color and touches up her face. What he achieves is a stronger version of Cheryl: the wide eyes more enormous, cheekbones more prominent, the nose a more perfect narrow line. "The only thing you have to be careful with is her lips," says Bandy. "They're thin, and she doesn't like a definite line or a lot of color...
...wept than sung. He took on Beethoven's In questa tomba oscura, an unyielding piece, though a war-horse of recital repertory. In the last two bitter words, ingrata, ingrata, he showed how a bold singer with operatic instincts can bring pathos to the whole song. Perhaps the most perfect, if not the most ambitious number was Tosti's limpid Ideale. In the heavenly cantoria, one could picture Beniamino Gigli and Tito Schipa nodding paternally, John McCormack consulting the universal genealogy to see if Pavarotti has any Irish blood. He has been compared with these tenors and many more, including...
...Grubman and heavyweight John Sefter, who also ran his record to a perfect 26-0 as he swept the unlimited division, the Tigers ended Lehigh's three-year reign as Eastern champions. Sefter pinned all four of his opponents and carried off the trophy cup for the least mat time during the tournament...
Harvard then proceeded to turn the game around, and the fans on. It became 4-2 at 15:55 when Bobby McDonald fed a perfect backhand centering pass to Tommy Murray for Harvard's second tally. And 34 seconds later, with 3:31 remaining in the game, it suddenly became a contest, as retread Billy Nolen ripped home Barney Cook's face-off pass to make...