Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliminating T and E deductions ought to be the perfect issue for Democrats. It reflects their professed support for the common people against the greedy. Former president John F. Kennedy '40 used the issue to his advantage. So did former president Jimmy Carter, who campaigned against the injustice of bankers deducting expensive lunches when a "truck driver cannot deduct his $1.50 sandwich...
...would anyone who does not mind being tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness...
Reports about the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease seem almost as inexorable as the illness. Each new survey appears to uncover a higher incidence of this wasting affliction of the mind. One reason is the difficulty of diagnosis. Since there is no perfect test for the disease -- except upon autopsy -- doctors' estimates of who does or does not have it must rely on subjective assessments. As these methods improve, the number of people with the disease appears to increase...
...would feel less pressure to flee the first chance they got. Beyond that, opening the Wall provided the strongest possible indication that Krenz meant to introduce freedoms that would make East Germany worth staying in. In both Germanys and around the world, after all, the Wall had become the perfect symbol of oppression. Ronald Reagan in 1987, standing at the Brandenburg Gate with his back to the barrier, was the most recent in a long line of visiting Western leaders who challenged the Communists to level the Wall if they wanted to prove that they were serious about liberalizing their...
...between director Lloyd Dallas (Daniel Zelman) and his actors keeps the audience's interest. Dallas desperately wants to run through the dress rehearsal in order to have a good opening night, but the actors keep pausing to question the motivations of their characters. Zelman commands to them with a perfect balance of sarcasm and subtle condescension...