Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tale, and it was filmed in Mexico. As a fable of man's hope, it has a great deal of beauty, even elements of greatness; as material for a moving picture-a story to be expressively told in terms of visible action-it is close to perfect. Unfortunately this fine poetic idea is handled much too "poetically." The characters talk too much and their dialogue, pseudo-biblical in style, constantly undermines their believableness as people...
Apathy took a holiday last week. For three successive evenings Sanders was as packed as the fire regulations would allow by an audience that listened in perfect silences to Alexander Schneider and Ralph Kirkpatrick play Back, Mozart, and Scarlatti, and them stomped, cheered, and shouted for more...
Automatic Jim Brieske, who executed seven perfect points after touchdown in that game, claimed today that Valpey had no small part in the West Coast invasion. "Valpey had Southern Cal so well scouted that we just had to wait for them to run into us," Brieske said...
...world figure-skating championship. He had already won the European and Olympic titles at Prague and St. Moritz. Defending Champion Gerschweiler did a pratfall during an Axel Paulsen in the free-skating. Three of the nine judges rated Button's performance 5.9 (perfect...
...dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...