Word: perfecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twice, thrice, Waller plays on his tom-toms and then the roar of the engine, gears clashing, wheels performing, the miles flying, The Boston Tea Party light squad flashes a picture of a locomotive on the main wall, a picture of Bismark on the right wall and its all perfect. The show is over...
...California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the center of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, all fit it for a place of great importance...
...would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
...with the artistic problem of defining what "the real thing is." Says Kosuth gravely: "I think the importance of all art is its ideas." Japanese-born Shusaku Arakawa shows a canvas on which is handwritten a recipe for banana cake. Who, after all, could show in a picture the perfect joy of mixing, baking, sniffing and finally tasting banana cake...
...disease, it develops, is a rampant euphoria that turns New Yorkers off liquor and tranquilizers and into platonically perfect citizens. The most alienated hippie (George Peppard) turns happy, his tacky chick (Mary Tyler Moore) turns chic, and they promptly infect the town with their beatitude. Industry and commerce slow to a standstill until the Government sends an investigator (Dom DeLuise) who restores the right amount of sullen chaos...