Word: perfective
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...would tell them, in deciding why things happen, to make more of a study of the people involved.'' For all his wariness, Regan obviously loves the battle and gives back brickbats of his own. ''Having a reasonably short fuse, I am usually very unhappy at a less than perfect performance. We are always under the spotlight. There are always many decisions that a corporate executive makes in a hurry. They are crisis decisions, but he doesn't have a thousand reporters watching him and 5,000 who are going to write or comment on how he handled...
...camera to address the audience, we know that realism is out. Ferris and his adventures represent a teen's dream of glory: to have, at one's fingertips, the technical skills to sabotage the adult world's machinery of oppression and, at the tip of one's tongue, the perfect squelch for grownups' moralistic blather. Here is a dream as old as adolescence, and it is fun to be reminded of its ageless potency, especially in a movie as good-hearted as this...
...time the revelry died down, 134 people had been arrested, at least 250 had been hospitalized, and a woman had been gang- raped beside the city's main thoroughfare. To top things off, the ''eternal flame'' representing the country's independence was stolen. The symbolism was all too perfect. In Mexico of late, almost everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. A devastating earthquake last September killed perhaps 20,000 and left tens of thousands in tents and tar-paper shacks around a capital that is already the world's largest metropolis. American officials appearing before a U.S. Senate...
...bluntly stated that a leakproof Astrodome against missiles ''is not a short- term proposition, and it may not even be possible in the long term.'' Gerold Yonas, the chief scientist for SDI, was equally emphatic. ''The idea that we are going to protect all the people somehow with a perfect defense'' is the ''wrong approach.'' Instead, he argued, the goal is to make the Kremlin unsure that it could launch a strike that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate. The immediate goal of SDI, Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole...
...years is Italy's Alessandra Ferri, 23, an ethereal, hugely gifted dramatic dancer. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, which has just finished its first North American tour in 22 years, is full of talent, but the great ovations have gone to Altynai Asylmuratova, 25, an exotic beauty blessed with a perfect line and the more elusive qualities of gentle lyricism and knockout sexual allure. Still to come is Sylvie Guillem, 21, of the Paris Opera Ballet, which arrives next month on its first U.S. visit since 1948. Guillem stands out with a sensational, long- limbed body and a cool, thoroughly modern...