Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe may not have given the Class of 1961a perfect education, but most alumnae looking backsay the college gave them a good education.Seventy-one percent of those polled said theywould attend the school again...
Once in a while the urge to escape is tempting. "How I would like to disengage, if only for a while," he wrote one day last year, "away from decisions, scrutiny, interaction. To be alone." Once a friend teased Cuomo that the perfect job for him was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. There, in splendid remoteness, he could contemplate and decide. Cuomo had already thought...
...tiny, hand-manipulated boats, reminiscent of a puppet show. At this point the scenery begins to collapse around the cast until the stage is a shambles. McKellen, still capering, still jigging, still shaking his frizzy ginger hair, surveys this chaos, cheerily chirps, "Ah, yes, very well, but not perfect," and really brings down the house. For this capstone to a richly varied festival, Chicagoans can thank the homegrown troupes that have put the city's name in boldface on the theatrical map of the world...
...existence of a place where affluent, middle-aged manuscripts can go for a rigorous diet and plastic surgery. The surface of The Garden of Eden is taut, chic and strangely contemporary. Newly married David and Catherine have pioneered their own Club Med on the Riviera. It is the perfect place for a sea change. The couple spend golden days brunching, mixing drinks with Perrier, wearing fisherman shirts and espadrilles, swimming and tanning in the buff. The rate of exchange is very favorable...
...Hemingway had completed this romance, perhaps Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is a spoiler whose taste in forbidden fruit threatens the private Eden of David's art. It is the place where he struggles with his own lost innocence...