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...perfectionist," says Barry, "I can't stand mediocrity." If being a one-man offense is perfection, Barry is indeed close to the mark. Tall enough (6 ft. 7½ in.) and heavy enough (220 Ibs.) to hold his own against most rival forwards, Barry can torment opponents with a deadly outside jump shot or exceptionally quick moves to the basket. Already this season, he has scored more than 40 points in ten games. "I don't believe any one man can prevent me from scoring," he says. Because he has been so hot, he often draws double coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the West | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

Foreword by Wallace Stegner. 127 pages. New York Graphic Society. $65. Magnificent examples of the reverential grandeur in Ansel Adams' photographic art, reproduced under the perfectionist eye of Adams himself. At the age of 72 he is the pre-eminent black-and-white photographer of the American West. Adams' sweeping vistas of Yosemite and the Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christmas Books: Looking Backward | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...dozen actors of the English-speaking stage. His voice is an organ of incisive command. He moves with the lithe, menacing grace of a puma. In an instant, he can range from partygoer prankishness to inner desolation. At the core of his being, he is a raging, inviolate perfectionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Mors Moriarti | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

Ford seems to be a fanatic on conditioning, a stickler on crisp passing and a perfectionist. His coaching style on the field seems to show daring and a willingness to experiment...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: Soccer Squad Starts '74 Season on Right Foot | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

Hayashi, a perfectionist, is not fully satisfied with his excellent film; he believes that he has learned so much in producing it that he could do an even better job if he should ever have the financing-and the time-to produce a second. But he modestly concedes that his film should prove valuable as a teaching aid for medical students and for high school audiences as well. The Fertility Research Foundation agrees, and hopes to arrange for showings of the film on educational television in the U.S. That would be reward enough for Hayashi. Says he: "Having seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Beginning of Life | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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