Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Borge's format is simple. Looking like a drunken Viking, he announces his numbers, then plays the piano; for two and a half hours, the audience doesn't stop laughing. Nothing could be duller than trying to analyze his humor-he has perfect timing, taste, and talent, and that is enough...
...meeting provides a perfect opportunity for the Corporation to get the job finished. According to formal procedure, the Corporation must first ask permission to select a new president; then, at the next meeting, the Overseers either reject or ratify...
...Hampshire's bald, Scripture-spouting old Senator Charles W. Tobey found a perfect foil for his histrionic talent last week: Joseph P. Ryan, burly, grumpy "lifetime" president of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Ryan has not only been indicted for misusing $11,390 in union funds, but has been ordered, on pain of action by his peers in the Federation, to clean up his criminal-ridden waterfront locals in the Port of New York. Nevertheless, on appearing as a witness before Tobey and his waterfront investigation committee, Joe refused to admit that he was heavy with...
Author Stafford is a fine hand at finding the exact word, turning the perfect sentence. But what gives her stories their special stamp is a somberly muted tone of helpless rage that the things she writes about can be. Hers is no book in which to flip pages toward neatly contrived happy endings. It consists of ten small monuments to minor tragedy. Her trouble is that she cannot make them seem major...
Donise Mangravite, in the role of Mabel, needs nothing but slightly stronger volume to make her perfect as a Gilbert and Sullivan heroine. With a clear, lilting voice she toys with the satiric words and music, never dragging, and always aware of her position as an actress. Elizabeth Kalkhuret, in the smaller role of Ruth, also is quite Savoyard, and gives, perhaps, the most consistent performance. Always on top of her role, she constantly strives for mannerisms characteristic of the middle-aged woman she plays...