Word: perfecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Austere Standard. Mies' vocabulary is one of yes and no, of the perfect and the imperfect. There is little room for adjectives or adverbs, and in the face of this unrelenting demand, lesser architects boggle or, refusing the challenge completely, invent a different vocabulary of their...
That is where Woody's road ends, in front of an old church that Ray (James Broderick) and Alice (Pat Quinn) have converted into a communal dorm for wandering kids. Life seems just about perfect-or "together," as the kids say -but Penn sees destruction all around. Ray and Alice, playing foster parents, bitch away at each other in rivalry for the affections of a reformed junkie named Shelly (Michael McClanatha). Woody lies dying in a Brooklyn hospital of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary affliction of the nervous system that Arlo may not escape. When Woody and Shelly...
Suddenly Silent. The President had only 50 miles to come by helicopter from San Clemente; for the astronauts, the trip to Los Angeles took a bit longer - 12½ hours and 3,875 miles from Houston in a hopscotching presidential jet. It was made easier by perfect weather along their route...
...favorites. The shape of villainy, the sense of impending doom soon intrude. Captain Gilson's book was dominated by a bad "Yankee pirate with an aeroplane like a box kite and bombs the size of tennis balls." The Viper, he admits, gave him a permanent vision of "perfect evil walking the world where perfect good can never walk again, and only the pendulum ensures that after all in the end justice is done." It was Miss Bowen too, apparently, who seduced him into writing. "One could not read her," he remembers, "without believing that to write was to live...
...cent of the winner's $69,290 purse was his. His face is hand carved mahogany and its expression never changes. He smiled last April. The event was duly recorded and commented upon by both of The Morning Telegraph's regular New York writers. Baeza has a complete and perfect talent. He rated Art And Letters superbly, waiting for the early leaders to come back to him. The finish--Arts And Letters, six and a half; Dike, three-quarters; Distray, a neck; Gleaming Light, two; Hydologist. By the way, Arts And Letters tied the track record...