Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naked Gun's script thrives on the same groaner puns and absurd hyperbole that distinguished Airplane! When the movie's villain, played with oily elegance by Ricardo Montalban, offers Nielsen a cigar he says, "Cuban?" "No," replies Nielsen, "I'm Dutch-Irish." Montalban's dignified demeanor is a perfect foil to Nielsen's hapless bumbling...
...road has been a dismal place for Colgate (5-4-1 overall, 2-2-1 ECAC) this season as well. The team has posted a perfect record (5-0) in its hometown of Hamilton, N.Y. But has played pathetically (0-4-1) once it leaves town...
Harvard's second-line freshmen combined twice in the first period, the first time on a great effort by Ceci Clark, who set up Lauren Messmore for a picture-perfect goal five minutes into the period...
Inevitably, there is culinary madness this season, with no fewer than three astrological cookbooks -- perhaps the perfect gifts for Nancy Reagan's new Bel Air kitchen. With such loony titles as Cosmic Cuisine (Harper & Row; $19.95), they stress the importance of choosing foods to suit one's sun sign. But while one claims that Cancers prefer a dish of spaghetti with a strong taste of the Mediterranean, another says they're inclined toward turnips. Alas, those looking for clear celestial guidance will find that their stars are crossed...
...perfect launch day at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia. Winds were gusting; a cyclone was reportedly moving in from the Aral Sea. The temperature was near freezing. Flight officials held an urgent meeting, then made their decision: it was a go. Minutes later the Soviet Union's first space shuttle rose, unmanned, out of a giant fireball that spread over the steppe. Looking much like its U.S. counterpart, the white- tiled, double-delta-winged vehicle, called Buran (Snowstorm), made two orbits around the earth, then executed a perfect automated landing a few miles from where it had blasted...