Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultrasound. A team of Bell Labs and Arizona State scientists has produced electron-microscope photographs that show defects in the compound's crystalline structure. Says Team Leader Abbas Ourmazd: "We don't quite understand what role the defects play, but it raises some provocative questions. Is it the perfect material that is superconducting? Or is it the defects? If it turns out that it is the defects, then we will want to control them and increase their density and put them in intentionally...
...Nuclear weapons aren't going to be abolished, and they're not going to be uninvented. Moreover, nuclear weapons have helped to keep the peace for 40 years. The other myth is that we're going to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" ((a favorite Reagan phrase)) with a perfect defense ((the Strategic Defense Initiative)). Both myths have...
...Aldredge) across the street before the light changes conveys all that is needed. Trying to squeeze his car into a tight parking space, Tommy huffs mightily as he turns the steering wheel back and forth while his front-seat companion, the indomitable Tamkin, rattles on: a perfect visual metaphor for Tommy's plight. The makers of Seize the Day did not settle for translating words to screen; somebody gave this one some thought...
...Agnes of God), a ferocious comedian who can be just as exotically mannered as O'Toole. The result could easily have been a mugging contest. Instead Plummer finds in Eliza a serene dignity and natural goodness that permeate even the character's most hyperkinetic moments and make her a perfect counterpoint to the low, aimless "undeserving poor" epitomized by Eliza's beguilingly frank rascal of a father, Alfred Doolittle (Sir John Mills...
...large the seniors who throw the parties belong to the hard-core group that makes it to almost every bash. However, rumors have it that Rich is the only person who has made it to every senior bar. His friend Robert had a perfect attendence slate as well until he encountered some trouble at Eliot House last weekend...