Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy predicts that there will be no significant obstructionism by the Republicans in the next session of Congress, since the amount of new legislation will be small. "We must perfect the programs we have already created," he says...
After a few more shows the cast may have settled on lines and cues which will undoubtedly affect individual performances. As things are now, David Odell is perfect as Berenger, the stoop-shouldered milksop supreme who stands alone against the herd. He is just the right amount of pot-bellied and high voiced; he shuffles without shame and is steeped in the divine oblivion of the truly noble and the godawful stupid...
Orbiter is scheduled to complete the tedious transmission of its pictures by Dec. 10. Shortly afterward, having carried out a practically perfect mission, it will be ordered to fire its retrorocket, drop out of orbit and plunge to destruction on the moon below...
...16th century reign of Sigismund I, Italian Renaissance artists were at work in Poland. Even two centuries later, the most famous master in the country bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating...
...chorus is perfect with extremely funny arrangements of "We Can Work it Out" and "I'll Be Back"; Weber and Fermin miraculously manage to keep straight faces and proper operatic stance through "Girl" and "Help." The orchestra, under music director John Adams, is fine with both Bach and the Beatles...