Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election into the Congress is mild if compared with the crisis we would face in a close election based on popular vote. Recounts, absentee ballots, and other less legitimate vote juggling in close precincts would keep an election in doubt for months. The Electoral College isn't perfect, but it's usually decisive. And if it fails, I'd rather trust Congress than Cook County...
...York Giants' own cast of characters is as varied as Author Asinof's fans; the list reads like a city ward-heeler's notion of the perfect political ticket. The coach is a Brooklyn Jew. The quarterback is a WASP-a Pentecostal minister's son from the Deep South. And the star pass receiver is a Negro. But whatever their differences, the Giants have one thing in common: an unpredictable flair for the dramatic...
...August invasion. The film is narrated with the simplicity of a Hemingway story, everything cut down to the essential facts. But the effect is tremendous because the camera work is excellent and the background music is good, while the mixing of the three elements--narration, film, and music--is perfect...
...show it to you. So I brought him up here and showed it to him, this room in here. He said it's not big enough. I said there's another room out there, there's two rooms. He said that's just ideal. It makes it perfect, it's just what we need...
...decisive action, are unknowable. The opinion-makers fill the gap with preconception and stereotype (antithesis), and the idea takes on a life of its own as women struggle to accommodate it. They may be warped (synthesis) in the attempt to reconcile potential with the roles assigned, but then a perfect circle is formed, and curves are feminine...