Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. A grainy, gritty double exposure of the spy racket on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Richard Burton is brilliant as a Western burned-out case; Oskar Werner is his preeminent prey from the East. Martin Ritt (Hud) is responsible for the near-perfect direction...
Lamb and Jones were physically perfect for their roles. Lamb, with a forehead dripping stringy hair, a mouth missing front teeth and surrounded by a grizzled chin, moved across stage with shambling feet and hands that shared time twitching and scratching. The hulking Jones mastered the vacant grin and the dead, controlled stare of a man who ever since the doctors removed the "pincers" from his skull "couldn't look to the right or the left . . . just straight ahead...
Section men? Perhaps a few, but most would roll over and get some extra sleep. Tutors? Skipping a tutoral wouldn't cripple the careers of America's budding scholars. The Deans? People could go on probation a week later. President Pusey? A perfect opportunity for a well-earned...
...Maurer, 63, the lawyer son of a wealthy member of the prewar bourgeoisie, is suave, cultivated, and was enough of a linguist during World War II to spring Dej from prison: dressed in an officer's uniform and purring perfect German, he waved a handful of spurious orders and marched off with a detachment of prisoners, Dej and Ceausescu included...
...native trader to a little stable, unfortunately locked, as the trader's brother had gone to the country with the key. The purchaser examined one horse critically through a window, went around the stable, and examined the other through a window at the other end. The match was perfect, the deal concluded on the spot, and the salesman went off-leaving his client to discover for himself that he had bought the same horse twice...