Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALKING HAPPY, a low-voltage musical based on Hobson's Choice, is switched on brightly by British Comedian Norman Wisdom. Louise Troy is his ever-loving, ever-perfect foil, and Danny Daniels' choreography makes it all jolly good...
GAMBIT. The perfect crime in this frenetic suspense comedy is described twice-first, as a criminal imagines it will happen; second, as it actually does happen. Both times around, Michael Caine plays the crook and Shirley MacLaine his larcenous accomplice...
Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
...clothes to "show these Texans [original version: "those rich Texas broads"] what good taste really is." While making a speech in Houston, Kennedy's hands shook so violently that they seemed palsied. "To his audiences," writes Manchester, "his easy air seemed unstudied. The illusion of spontaneity was almost perfect; only his hands would have betrayed him, and he was careful to keep them out of sight...
...unfolding her perfect crime, British Playwright Macaulay tries hard to be à la Mod. Her actors, uniformly able, have been directed to play it cool and campy, while tossing off supposedly chic little references to existentialism. They perform with the cheery abandon of those who see a closing notice looming in the immediate future...