Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrapped in a drought, Burke pushed on to the Khasi Hills at Cherrapunji. reputed to have the world's heaviest rainfalls. The moment he arrived, the rains ceased. Just after he left, 30 inches fell. As a final blow, he was arrested for taking surreptitious pictures of a perfect formation of monsoon clouds from a Calcutta-bound plane. Indian law prohibits taking pictures from an airplane. "They just couldn't believe," Burke relates, "that all I wanted to do was photograph a few of their clouds...
...Princetonian plea continues, "For years Princeton partisans have been spoiled. They have expected to see a perfect team, a virtual touchdown-machine, demolish its opponents at will. No team can keep up such a record forever without the sort of professionalism that none of us would want to see. After all, there are other schools in the League, too, and occasionally some of them will have teams that can beat us or even rent...
...about half the film this comic technique works beautifully. As Mr. Potts blithely bungles into international intrigue completely oblivious of what he is doing, he becomes progressively more pitiful and more comical. George Cole, whose doleful, expressive face is perfect for the part, makes Potts almost Chaplinesque. The beginning is also enlivened by some very funny caricatures of British bureaucrats and civil servants as they frantically try to retrieve the plans for "Project Cataclysm...
...thinking everything in the garden is perfect once the state takes over. That just...
Mary Cassatt's most telling device was her own: she painted plain and sometimes charmless people in classically noble poses, and with the same care that earlier artists lavished on saints and goddesses. Coolheaded and warmhearted, easy and austere, her art had the perfect balance that only will power achieves. Beyond that, Painter Cassatt was blessed with psychological penetration as unwelcome in the Victorian age as it is prized today. In the picture opposite, the baby's burgeoning life subsides to bedtime weariness. Relaxed and perfectly possessive, the child clasps its mother's chin. The mother...