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...class. Jeez Christ, if his team didn't get a run or a score he'd come home and yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting. He was a perfectionist. Artie would decorate each cupcake from a pastry-frosting bag, and if I dipped my finger in the frosting he'd be mad as hell...
...Lindsay Davis is getting ready to launch his production of "The Fantasticks." Down by the river, another form of cabaret will be housed in Mather House Dining Hall, where Guy Rochman '72 has been rehearsing his "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris." Rochman is a perfectionist who treated his cast to a vacation of 12-hour rehearsal days. The quality of the production reflects this devotion, and the whole Mather set-up looks and sounds like a lot of fun, with huge baskets of fruit and flowers and all the wine you can drink...
...come close a couple of times, but there simply aren't that many marriages I envy. A lot of women are just hanging in there for the security, but that's a dumb reason to get married. As for children, I'm too much of a perfectionist to put up with them. I'd be a rotten mother...
...being the wife of Theatrical Producer Lee Guber and the mother of a three-year-old adopted daughter. "She's very professional," says Film Critic Judith Crist, her sometime colleague on Today. "She's a damned good reporter, does most of her own writing and is a perfectionist." But Barbara, a sleek brunette of 40, has another side too. "I am also on the Today show to add small talk, to smile pleasantly and be attractive," she says. Once, asked whether she felt the show exploited her as a sex object, she replied: "I should hope...
...anyone can handle both San Francisco and Boston, it is Ozawa. He is at once a demanding orchestral perfectionist-especially brilliant with 20th century music-and a genial man under whom musicians enjoy working. If a flaw could be found in his musical makeup, it is that he often seems to be learning his repertory as he goes along from hall to hall, hotel to hotel. Sometimes the results are scrappy, but more usually they are exciting and blooming with fresh thought...