Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team in the country can afford to be inconsistent against the Blue Devils. "We have to play a perfect game to stay in the game," Crimson forward Neil Phillips said. "We want to see what we can do against a couple of All-Americans...
This rationale offered perfect political cover for Congressmen whose real purpose was to protect the endangered tax breaks of special-interest groups. . Sunbelt Congressmen could look out for oil and gas; Northwestern Congressmen could protect timber; Representatives from Rustbelt states could defend steel and heavy industry. In the end, 164 Republicans and 59 Democrats rebelled and defeated the proposed rule, 223 to 202. Only 14 Republicans backed the President...
...fair was the work of the country's first and last great generation of designer-promoters. The son et lumiere theatrics were unabashed. Raymond Loewy designed an exhibit called "Rocketport of the Future," and Norman Bel Geddes' "Futurama," the most popular exhibit, was a scale model of a perfect, antiseptic cityscape. "Strange? Fantastic? Unbelievable?" asked the Futurama narrator. "Remember--this is the world...
...gorgeous blue- lacquered maple desk (1933) designed by Paul Frankl avoided the cartoony extremes and actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...
...women. The demotic narrative style, filled with humor, horror and the obsession to survive, softens Walker's messages: Sisterlove is beautiful, and Men stink. We are inside Celie's head, and for all the tragedies stored there, it is a lovely place to live. It might also seem the perfect spot for Spielberg to visit, since virtually all of his films are about the separation and cathartic reunion of parent and child. The book is full of such wrenching restorations, and for the climax of his movie Spielberg invents one more...