Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its perfect record, the Crimson has yet to hit its stride...
...elections in Tamil Nadu, one of India's most populous states, looked like a perfect opportunity for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to reverse the failing fortunes of his ruling Congress (I) Party. The opposition was badly split, and a secret poll showed Congress vying for the lead. Smelling victory, Gandhi visited the state four times in three weeks...
...Janis Joplin expressed one side of the year fairly well: ecstatic and self-destructive simultaneously, wailing to the edges of the universe, flirting with the abyss. Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970, memorably sang Me and Bobbie Magee, the 1969 Kris Kristofferson song that contained a perfect line of 1968 philosophy, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...
...they're finished anyway," he said. "There's still going to be years of having all these old fools who are governing us and who are bombing us and doin' all that because, you know, it's always them. I don't expect to see the world in a perfect state of bliss -- you know, like 100%. But it doesn't matter...
...tete-a-tete with that ambiguous lady. In Shanley's world, it is inevitable that this does not go awfully well. Nick asks her to listen to the wine breathe, serves octopus for the main course and generally comes on too strong. It is also inevitable that a perfect substitute for Christine will soon turn up. And it does, in the form of the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). This is not love as usual; this is the need for sexual revenge...