Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, that the book is perfect. Halberstam has set his story in the presidential year 1988, a time of serious decay in America. The fuel shortage has dropped the United States into the second division of world powers, border wars are flaring among the states, and "radical youth" has swung to the right to begin a guerilla war against the blacks who, having attained the nervous prosperity of the middle class, have taken over the military and the FBI. It's all in good fun, really--although Halberstam's vision of America has an underlying serious tone, his tongue seems...
Felske, the Warren Beatty look-alike with a style to match, instituted a running program and longer workouts for starters. He then sat back and watched as the squad, aided by four talented freshmen, rolled up a perfect 5-0 fall slate and finished first in both the Greater Boston and Mass. State Championships...
...Animal House's "filthy, outrageous lot" [Aug. 14] are the perfect portrait of "the true spirit of American higher education"! Well, well. Wherever Frank Rich attended college, he is certainly not qualified to condemn the entire American system of higher education on the basis of his own limited experience. Perhaps he went to college "to spend four years studying sex," but there is no justification for dragging the entire undergraduate world down to that level...
...training goes through weeks of sometimes tearful self-improvement and self-display. There are trips to Palo Alto to work with her orchestrator. Hairdresser John Bettiol works over her for hours, striving for that perfect balance between wholesomeness and sophistication. He coaxes Christine's permed frizz into a Cosmo-mane of curls, daubing her face with goo and powder. Sneaking a peek in the mirror, she is aghast. Her mouth is caked in red sludge. "It should have blood dripping from it," she jokes. The photographer is unimpressed. What Christine hates most is the fake eyelashes...
...Tracy was an almost perfect swimming machine, slim, long-armed and, after years of rigorous training, powerful. She learned to swim at four and, with the prodding of an older brother and sister (Amy, 17, played on the U.S. women's water polo team that gave an exhibition in Berlin), she began to swim seriously as an eight-year-old. At twelve she started weight training, and shortly thereafter settled into a grueling six-day-a-week regimen...