Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Child actors started to carry their share of the weight of heightened political and social reality. "I think it is the most hopeful business of movies to find the perfect people rather than the perfect artists," wrote James Agee in a review of National Velvet that was like a prose sonnet to the young Elizabeth Taylor...
...perfect baby," gushed Louise Brown's mother, as Louise-Lulu to her family-celebrated her birthday at a party in Bristol, England...
...book has all the style and plot interest of "As the World Turns." Each character has four important episodes--discovering sex in college, getting married, discovering problems with sex in marriage, and having kids. Each also has a quirk, a flaw in her otherwise perfect Radcliffe patina. Emily is neurotic, Daphne has epilepsy, Annabel likes sex and alcohol, and Chris is obsessed with a homosexual. By the time they get back to Cambridge for their reunion, these tiny flaws have created major messes...
...LOEB'S production of Lulu is the perfect portrayal of a nightmare. The stage is draped in red. Characters float in and out and die while piano rags tinkle soothingly in the background. As in all nightmares, there is no interior logic, just a disembodied series of sketches that provoke mingled horror and impatience at their very disjointedness. For all the melodrama, stabbings, shootings, spurting of blood and impassioned speeches, the play leaves one fundamentally cold. And Frank Wedekind probably wanted it that...
...critical acumen, at least when applied to the works of the Marquis de Sade, who was, wrote Swinburne, "like a Hindoo mythologist: he takes bulk and number for greatness... as if a number of pleasures piled one on another made up the value of a single great and perfect sensation of pleasure...