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...Evert Lloyd has defined what that means. "It was always normal for me to live up to my seeding," Chris says, without complaining, though there must be a particular hurt in having always to accomplish that much before ever accomplishing anything. "I expected it from myself. I am a perfectionist...
...discussion. Glenn's strengths, in many ways, are also his weaknesses. His refusal to bend, his lack of political cleverness, his stands on principle over narrow objectives make his candidacy both uplifting and risky. Can this gutty loner reach out to people and build coalitions? Can this fussy perfectionist form a Government and make it work? These are questions that people are entitled to ask themselves about a man who wants to be President. John Glenn, war hero, space hero, champion vote getter, for the past 40 years a veritable Mr. America, still must show...
...fresh out of the editing room. Ever since he saw the first episode in 1977, Clarke has been hooked on Lucas' special brand of magic. Says he: "Lucas seemed every bit as nervous about Jedi as he was about Star Wars. He is a compulsive worrier, a nonstop perfectionist. Maybe that is why his movies are so good." Clarke spent a day, along with Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell, interviewing Lucas and his wife Marcia, an Oscar-winning film editor who helped cut Jedi, at their white Victorian mansion in nearby San Anselmo. Worrell also toured Skywalker Ranch...
...turned on all her electric appliances at once, there'd be a blackout from here to Boston," says Russell Morash, the executive producer who has worked with Child for 20 years. (Morash also produces public television's widely acclaimed This Old House and Victory Garden series.) A perfectionist who will go through four crates of pineapples to get a one-minute paring sequence right, the producer teams smoothly but uncompromisingly with his star, even to working out her lines, which are all unscripted. (Sample Juliana: "A recipe is an attractive idea, not a sacrosanct monument...
Sheraton, 56, is a perfectionist with an exhaustive knowledge of foodstuffs and their preparation, and rigid, consistent standards. In a city that boasts 16,000 eating places, her review columns, usually covering at least two restaurants, enjoy a huge following. Thus, even before its official publication next week, a selection of 350 Sheraton reviews in book form has sold out its first printing of 25,000 copies. Awkwardly titled Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants, the $9.95 paperback is as diverse as the city, ranging from minuscule Chinatown dim-sum joints...