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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This woman is inevitably a figure of fun. In Arvin Brown's perfect production at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, her blindness becomes a tragic symbol of the willful ignorance of a nation. Tony winner Elizabeth Wilson (Sticks and Bones) is supremely tough-minded and understated. So is the rest of the 24-member cast, notably Charles Keating in the sentimental role of a faded movie star (played by John Barrymore in the 1933 film). This is probably the finest revival of a classic by any U.S. regional theater this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: On The Shoals DINNER AT EIGHT | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson's second goal came three minutes into the second overtime period when Hackeling deflected a perfect corner kick from junior Jen Gifford...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Booters Bash Yale in OT, 2-0 | 10/26/1988 | See Source »

...party is a fun and nice way to help out the poorer part of the Cambridge community," Laser said. "It was a very dear moment for everyone who participated last year. It was the volunteers' pleasure and the perfect way to make a contribution to UNICEF...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNICEF to Sponsor Party | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...which his wife Kitty was raped and killed. Such a hypothesis justified almost any conceivable answer. Dukakis could have vented anger at the premise of the question or passionately explained his own feelings of outrage when his father was badly mugged. Such a response would have been a perfect way to introduce his view that the legal system is designed to temper human impulses for hang-him-high vengeance. But even as his political dreams hung in the balance, Dukakis mustered all the emotion of a time-and- temperature recording. He managed to turn a question about his wife being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Scores A Warm Win | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...Thompson was the perfect coach to try to defeat a world-class team with a team that was only together for two months," Heinsohn says. "That Big East defense (which Thompson uses as coach of Georgetown University) is such that whenever Georgetown would play out of conference, no one would know what to do with...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Still Giving 'Em the Hook | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

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