Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cousin wed last week, it was a jollier occasion, a larkish high-society romance scripted by P.G. Wodehouse. No foreign heads of state were present, and no national holiday was declared. Instead, the abbey was full of family and friends, there to celebrate Queen and country and witness the perfect match of two frolicsome young people. The < royal family are royals, and that is the secret of their magic; but they are also a family, and that is the essence of their charm...
...author of Heartburn was born knowing about star quality and its discontents; she is the daughter of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, who put funny endearments into the mouths of Tracy and Hepburn (Desk Set) and adapted Carousel for Hollywood. In Mike Nichols, Ephron fille has found the perfect director for her skewering humor. Once he invigorated cabaret comedy as half of the Nichols and May team; now he orchestrates the romantic abrasions of Nicholson-Streep and the nifty cameos of Steven Hill as Rachel's flighty dad and John Wood as a nightmare Alistair Cooke. Generous and precise, Nichols...
Well, this season's big moneymaker appears to be a Motownesque ditty called "Sledgehammer" by erstwhile art-rocker Peter Gabriel. As summer swill singles go, "Sledge" is a real doozy, the slowed-down tempo perfect for dancing (or doing anything else) in a sand dune. Perhaps if "Sledge" was a Van Halen song, I could really get excited. But coming from Gabriel, one of few rock performers who writes intelligent and adult material, this song and most of So hit me about as hard as a three-day-old Miller Light...
...Perfect. Perfect has always been the problem. By today's movie conventions, Weaver, 36, is too gorgeous to be ordinary, too smart to be sexy, too sensible to be interesting. Hollywood lusts for the diseased oyster these days, not the pearl. And so, while notching a worthy stage career on Broadway (Hurlyburly) and in regional theater, Weaver has been placed in the cluttered corners of raucous comedies starring Saturday Night Live alumni (Ghostbusters, Deal of the Century) or at the cores of enigmatic dramas (Eyewitness, The Year of Living Dangerously). She is Dom Perignon in a town built to sell...
...little high on final approach to Mojave Airport, 75 miles north of Los Angeles. But Dick Rutan, 48, was determined not to be waved off. "You betcha I'm going to land the first time," he said, and brought his graceful, eye-catching craft in for a perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record of 84 hours aloft...