Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game was perfect football. Why, it was two separate games. The first half was as close as close can be. The Packers had only a 14-10 lead. Then the second half settled the age-old controversy...
...That's perfect, Senator," says the producer. "Lay it on them." "All right," the Senator tells his sidemen, "Teddy, on the ocarina, let's go . . . Eunice, a little more tempo there." Then Bobby is cued for the big sock finish. "Come on and hold me tight," he begins laconically, but from the control room a voice interrupts: "A little more Boston soul, Senator." Later, when he waxes too hot ("O come on, wild thing"), the producer cautions: "Not so ruthless, Senator...
...Street Costume. Despite its smallness, the purity of the girl's soft profile gives it the monumentality of proud, aloof youth. His Picasso study of a mother and child, making a contrapposto of shoulders and hands, is superlative enough to make the Blue Period of 1904 seem a perfect neighbor to Mantegna's 15th century touch. For Sachs, it was the exquisite image in itself; nothing else mattered...
...took a perfect play at 2:09 of the second period to break the stalemate of defenses and goalies. Ben Smith passed from the left corner to the point. Tom Micheletti returned the bullet pass, then Smith centered just as fast to Waldinger, who backhanded a sizzler from ten feet into the lower right corner of the cage...
...perfect crime in this picture is described twice. First time around, the criminal (Michael Caine) confidently imagines how it will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner...