Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fail to comprehend how this solution-a perfect one, as far as we can see-can be regarded as unlawful or adulterous...
Well, the cover portrait of him is perfect. The Pied Piper motif-oh, drop dead! I'm one of the rats...
...sprightly femme fatale who dreams of a perfect marriage "full of quarrels and making-up and everything," Betty and her square-jawed artlessness fit oddly into an atmosphere of languorous waltzes, yearning tziganes and dark, uncontrollable passions. Determined Lubitsch fans may find her presence there a satiric leg-pull in the Lubitsch tradition. Although Grable fans are less likely to enjoy this subtle kind of continental joke, they will at least see plenty of Betty. Caped in ermine (900 skins, $28,000) and daintily barefoot, or garbed in flossy period costumes, Betty is all over the place. She dances...
...stage it. He had arranged for someone to drive, and for someone else to get hit. He had even sent out an ambulance to pick up the victim. His Honor, Professor Charles W. Joiner of the University of Michigan's law school, thought he had found a perfect way to get a practical lesson into his students' mock courtroom trials...
...witness so mixed up during cross-examination that she began sobbing "I don't know" to questions she had already answered with assurance. Driver Donaldson's mind went completely blank when he finally reached the witness stand, and he wasn't playacting. Said the professor: "A perfect example of retrograde amnesia...