Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contains illustrations of more than 800 pieces of art, 369 pages of color reproductions of paintings, scrolls, fans and album leaves, and hundreds of pages of calligraphy, an art form in itself. This is the largest compilation of 19th and 20th century Chinese art in the West, and the perfect gift for the mandarin who has everything...
...perfect slices of abalone, counterpointed with green and yellow radish, lie in the curve of an earthen bowl shaped like an open shell. This is the serene, luminous geometry of Japan: The Beauty of Food (Rizzoli; 175 pages; $50). Photographer Reinhart Wolf was not satisfied with recording only the creations of eminent chefs. He foraged in food shops to assemble sake glasses made of dried octopus, a squad of chocolate sumo wrestlers, a bouquet of lollipops, kaleidoscopic cookies. Angela Terzani's text provides morsels of its own. Sushi lovers may be abashed to learn that they have not exactly touched...
Realistically, Roby does not have a great number of options when preparing his cagers for the Devils. Last season, Duke beat Harvard, 98-86, and the Crimson played absolutely perfect basketball in the second half to lose by only...
Using this form, which the future frosh return during the summer months, the six senior advisers will sit down and spend four weeks and close to $200,000 playing Harvard's unique version of the dating game--matching personalities and peculiarities in the search for the perfect rooming group...
...constantly aware of 9000 different factors," Heath says. But she adds, "The system is as successful as it can be. [The senior advisors] have to make a lot of decisions with only limited information. There is no such thing as a perfect system...