Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Line Payoff. At lift-off Dr. Debus looked through the window, studying the quality of the roaring flame. His experienced eye told him that ignition had been perfect. He strolled to the instrumentation room, where a moving pen was tracing a black ink line on a flowing chart. If the black line, which represented the rocket's trajectory, stayed sufficiently close to a blue line representing the planned course, all would be well. He watched for a minute or so. Then his saber-scarred face smiled gently. "It looks good," he said. Pioneer...
...claimed that nonobjective art is the perfect expression of what now seems to be an atomic age, or is in any case a scientificomechanical age, and perhaps that is true. For the nonobjective painting claims validity only for its mechanics, for the material with which it is made and the manner of their organization. It rejects man, his life, his visions, his philosophies, his future...
Boosted by two holidays, movie business boomed all through February. The month's top ten moneymakers, as reported by Variety: 1) Auntie Mame (Warner), 2) Some Came Running (M-G-M), 3) Separate Tables (United Artists), 4) Perfect Furlough (Universal), 5) Inn of the Sixth Happiness (20th Century-Fox), 6) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 7) South Pacific (Magna), 8) Gigi (M-G-M), 9) Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (20th Century-Fox), 10) Bell, Book and Candle (Columbia...
When Anna was young and good-looking, an important man wanted her and she refused. Today, there is Paul, whose eyes are "great blue perfect things with lids like lips," and she refuses him also. The reason: neither would speak the magic phrase, "Will you marry...
...enthusiastic performance, the large cast captured the spirit of this rollicking play and kept an appreciative Sanders audience at its fingertips. The evening was paced by the charm and voice of Vivi Thomas as Eileen and by the near-perfect performance of Jane Hallowell as the volatile Ruth. Miss Thomas' Eileen is saucy, gay, and captivating, and hers is the outstanding voice of the show. In the rare moments when the play lagged, Miss Hallowell's forceful humor picked up the action and lent the show new life. Perhaps the most triumphant moment came in the second act when Ruth...