Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standards of statuary, Lady Liberty is absurdly huge, unnecessarily literal, a giant trinket as vulgar as a sign on the Las Vegas strip. It is hardly an ancient monument. Except for Richard Morris Hunt's pedestal, the thing was not even Made in America. (Perfect protectionist irony: an imported patriotic icon...
...could show me that a nearly perfect system could be built, and that it would be cheaper than Soviet countermeasures, I'd buy it," said Paul Carlson, director of research for the pro-freeze Union of Concerned Scientists, which claims 100,000 donors...
...apparent from the first frolicking scenes of Running that this film's Chicago--grim, gray and covered with dirty slush--is clearly not the same shining citadel we saw last week in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's crime on the streets of Chicago, unlike in picture-perfect Winnetka, and its up to Costanzo and his oh-so-cool sidekick Ray Hughes to whip the outlaws into shape...
...solution, it was perfect: the Golden Arches pays all the pickle farmers they employ to stop producing sour cucumbers and begin producing staples like potatoes, grain and the like. What you've got here is the beginning of an international food distribution service. Since everyone throws out the pickles anyway, we eliminate waste and the needless production of a needless product...
...PERFECT SPY, Le Carre...