Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With them the Chinese brought their entire team of interpreters and aides from Panmunjom. An American was flabbergasted when one of the aides translated Chou's speech aloud in perfect English; he had sat opposite the man for seven weeks at Panmunjom, never heard him speak a word of English...
None of the three men who now play with Mulligan were with him on the Coast. Gone is Chet Baker, a trumpeter who got too good to play second fiddle. Together, Baker and Mulligan worked perfectly--the easy, sliver-like sounds of Baker's horn a perfect complement to the fullness of the baritone sax. Not until last night have I heard Brookmeyer do as well with Mulligan as Baker...
...world record. Why not up to the mile?" Whitfield even figured he had a good chance to become the first man ever to run the four-minute mile: "Why not? I can run as fast as anybody else, and I feel that both my physical and mental conditioning are perfect." Halberg was modestly and remarkably uninterested in the four-minute mile: "I don't care one way or the other. I certainly won't strain myself to do it." In short, Halberg was just interested in winning...
...last week), Eddie Albert says: "The theater is a lottery. Making bad movies for no fun. Television is the same-everything's got to be perfect. Nightclubs are the only place to try out new ideas any more. They are the only place to be lousy...
...settings are a real wonder-perfect secondhand château; and the photography catches them in just that faintly too-dreamy glow in which they are seen by Mlle. Julie's girls. The acting is first rate. In scene after scene, Edwige Feuillere's performance as Julie rings like fine glass. Marie-Claire Olivia as Olivia does very well with a fairly monotonous part, and Simone Simon is real as the spoiled, catlike Cara. but perhaps does not display quite strongly enough the ravages of her moral mange...