Word: perfective
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...Certainly Peggy Fleming was, but Janet Lynn was the young woman I just idolized. I thought she had the perfect blend of athleticism, artistry, delicateness and power. And she was a beautiful blonde pixie with this radiant smile. She was just a generation before me. But Peggy Fleming was so beautiful, swan-like and elegant. I was in those days considered more of an athletic skater, so I knew I could never be like Peggy Fleming. I always thought that Janet Lynn was probably something realistic for me to aspire...
...because his partner of nearly 40 years was William Tynan, who was a stage and TV actor before he became a TIME arts reporter of exceptional knowledge, ingenuity and patience. He retired in 2000 but has continued his active interest in the theater, as a Tony voter and a perfect complement to George. The two met when they played in The Boys in the Band in Florida in the late '60s. Both were strong personalities who challenged and supported each other. Their time together marked what to me was, in all but name, one of the great marriages...
...bachelor who's bullied by just about everyone - his unrelentingly randy dad (Jerry Stiller), his henpecked best friend (Rob Corddry), a couple of obnoxious 10-year-olds at the wedding of his former girlfriend - into finding a suitable mate. Lila (Akerman), whom he meets at a mugging, seems the perfect solution to what other people think is his problem. She's friendly, pretty and has a job in environmental research. All right, she won't have sex with him until after they're married, but surely that'll be a consummation worth waiting...
...living in a visual culture, a commercialized, sexual culture,” she says. “We are living at a time where people feel like they have to put their best face forward.” One part of that culture—the push for physical perfection through artificial means such as tanning and plastic surgery—is, Pollitt says, a waste of time. “You might as well be smoking and getting some pleasure out of it,” she says. For Pollitt, the movement towards physical perfection is connected...
...course, but one instinct tells me that Rudy will have lost less blood when it's all said and done, based on his experience in the mud pit of New York City politics. Giuliani has another card to play, too: he will be arguing, in effect, "I'm not perfect, but I'll keep you safer...