Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely pleased with the results, since most color reproductions leave much to be desired. Offset lithography, the commonest technique used for wall pictures, produces colors that under the best of conditions are only partially true. Even the far more costly and time-consuming method of collotype, which offers near-perfect color veracity, does not capture the raised daubs and whorls of the artist's brush...
...technique used to reproduce Ernst's painting is called "kamagraphy," and its invention was announced last December by an enterprising Parisian combine headed by Engineer André Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special press, destroying the original in the process (color lithographs, by comparison, can be printed as many as 500 times, though first-quality press runs, signed by famous artists, are normally limited to between 30 and 250 prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French...
...Wilson says he has "got to the age now when people like to retell old jokes and anecdotes"-the perfect age, in other words, for his autobiography. A Prelude is the first installment. As readers of The New Yorker found when A Prelude ran this spring, Wilson's memoirs have no narrative line, consist mainly of a string of entries from a journal he began keeping in 1914 "to catch sur le vif things that struck me as significant or interesting." Epigrams, verbal preenings, a lexicon of slang, fugitive thoughts, reading lists, poems, stories-all are spread out like...
...single flow'r he sent me, since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose; Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet- One perfect rose...
...ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose...