Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might of Pennsylvania's rowing machine triumphed in all other races. Navy, which hosted the Adams Cup regatta, was pathetically overpowered in every contest, Racing conditions were perfect...
...Couple is not quite the near-perfect comedy it could have been. Except for a handful of outdoor shots, Director Gene Saks has followed the original Mike Nichols staging with slavish and unimaginative fidelity. Time after time, the camera remains static while the dialogue is left to fend for itself. Although he is one of Hollywood's most polished performers, Lemmon too often strains to achieve the lines of tension that characterized Art Carney's high-strung stage interpretation of the role...
...film owes its comic force to two stars-one visible, the other unseen. Walter Matthau, with his loping, sloping style, mangled grin and laugh-perfect timing, may well be America's finest comic actor. And Playwright Neil Simon occasionally takes off his clowns' masks to show the humans beneath. In doing so, he has made his Odd Couple real people, with enough substance to cast shadows alongside the jokes...
This passage from the ringing first novel in T. H. White's Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...
...large to do its members individual justice. But special mention must be made of Sheila Hart and Arthur Friedman (Ftatateeta and Pothinus). Their overbearing presences manage to evoke most of the corruption and tension in the atmosphere of the Egyptian court. Ed Etsten (Rufio) is physically and vocally perfect as Caesar's comrade-in-arms, though his performance lacks a good deal for variety. And when Leland Moss (Brittanus) drops the strange, epicene mannerisms which he has imposed on the character of the super-sophisticated reform barbarian, he has several moments of rare and special dignity...