Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choose to be less than themselves, through technology, or rediscover their spiritual amplitudes, for good or ill. To be fully conscious, even of the worst, seems preferable. Tom describes a sunfish caught in a local bayou: "The colors will fade in minutes, but for now the fish looks both perfectly alive yet metallic, handwrought in Byzantium and bejeweled beyond price, all the more amazing to have come perfect from the muck." An engineered life would leave no room or tolerance for such perceptions...
...perfect touch at the end of an imperfect evening...
...watch the level, and he minded the way she talked to herself perpetually, going about the house with her lips moving as though she were some kind of old-fashioned priestess forever at her praying, or insane. Also, she whined. But Clumly was not bitter. 'Nobody' life is perfect,' he sometimes said to himself, which was true...
...shapes? Besides, as the brothers demonstrate at the climax, round is funny too. And more than a little poignant. The plot circles back to the quints' nursery, and then to the McDonnoughs' bedroom, where Hi has the strangest dream he dare consider. It is a vision into the future perfect, of middle-class stability and continuity, of a purloined child growing up to be a college football star and an old couple with funny names surrounded by a loving family they can never have. "It ain't Ozzie and Harriet," Hi had said earlier of his tattered family portrait...
...last season from 24-4 to 17-6 may be traced in part to a mouthful of abscessed teeth. "Some games, I took a lot of pain pills." Missing his gold front tooth for the first time as a pro, Gooden went out last week with a perfect smile and gave up nine runs in the first inning...