Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These moments are welcome in a book that frequently takes itself too seriously, and can throw out platitudes such as "The city boy who hates the city leaves the city to perfect a speech in absolute supremacy of the city...We all choose a calling that's the most radical contradiction of ourselves...
...first truly spring-like day of the year--with temperatures hovering near 70 yesterday--provided a perfect setting for a family stroll along the Charles River and through the Boston Public Garden...
...African Americans and Hispanics concentrating on 10-ft. putts. Golf is also appealing to a younger crowd. And it shows. Myrtle Beach, S.C., for example, has evolved from a secluded, two-course resort town into a family golfing Mecca with 49 public and ten private links. "It's the perfect sport for the 'I'm-in-control generation,' " says Binford. Nor is it so hard on the knees as tennis or jogging -- something that baby boomers have come to appreciate now that they are turning fortysomething...
Brown threatened in the bottom of the eighth, but Wambach threw out the potential tying run with a perfect throw to Co-Captain and catcher Nancy Prior. Prior collided with the Bear runner and remarkably held onto the ball. The game was effectively over. Harvard once again had pulled out a nail-biter...
...Tomorrow's World" turns into "Me and You (Against the World)," a terrific horn-driven rocker that ends each verse with a dizzily assymetric tag line. Flawless, and followed by "Down to London," which would also be perfect except for the eerie similarity between its Latin American piano figure and that of Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways." This becomes a tragic flaw; the combination of tamborine, piano, and Motown harmonica, which would otherwise be irresistable, is undercut by one's idle speculation as to how Jackson's lawyer will deal with the imminent plagiarism suit...