Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because they might irk women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned upon as "preoccupied" drivers. A Manhattan lawyer was banned after someone hit his car in his apartment-house parking lot while he was upstairs asleep; a California housewife with a perfect driving record lost her policy because her husband was a Navy medic-driving an ambulance in Viet...
...perfect host, Obolensky knew when to be present, when to be absent. Let the others game the night away; he spent the small hours working out last-minute details of the seating arrangements, always fully aware of every shifting allegiance and liaison. But let something go awry, and Obolensky was on the scene. No sooner had the power failed during one dinner than he ordered candles lit, soothing the party-goers with the assurance that candlelight was "far more romantic." By the end, the guests agreed that in all things great and small the planning had been perfect, the execution...
...span, his converted minesweeper Calypso pursued sharks in the waters of the Middle East. For half a year, Cousteau's crew was aswirl in terrifying hammerheads, blue whalers and tiger, shovelnose and white-tipped sharks-"by whatever name," the narrator said of the breed, "a fearsome brute, a perfect killing machine." But Cousteau's red-capped divers fearlessly ran off experiments right in their menacing midst. One crewman rode the back of a 60-ton whale shark. Others worked in pairs, back to back, each carrying a shark billy to fend off attackers on all flanks. When...
...finding a donor with Block's blood type, AB, Rh positive. This is found in only about 5% of Americans. By extraordinary chance, the first potential donor reported to Maimonides was AB positive. She was Helen Krouch, 29, a New Jersey office worker who had seemed in perfect health when she told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking lot from the pressure of a tumor upon...
Some good acting gets lost in Nichols' vain attempt to prove himself a purveyor of cinematic pizazz. Bancroft and Hoffman are more capable than the script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...