Word: perfectly
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Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy...
Like most modern metropolises, Boston sports several movie houses that show mainstream moneymakers like Rambo or Perfect. The seven Sack Cinema theaters are the best places to find new films that are popular across the nation. But, unless you feel the urge to ride the subway, there's no reason why you should have to leave Cambridge for good flicks. The Square has a good assortment of mainstream popular, classic, and foreign films to keep you entertained without ever having to venture into Boston...
While they may not be akin to regular Harvard courses (except maybe Oscar Handlin's History 1958, which describes the role of TV in modern American life), courses like VISU S-196: The Horror Film, and PSYC S-1470: Psychopathology, seem to be courses perfect for attending on lazy summer afternoons. An interesting and unusual topic is what a summer school course should be all about...
...scenes on the gritty sidewalks of Manhattan allow Berger to find a more congenially savage mode, incorporating an authentic urban snarl into his impeccable diction. His hapless narrator enjoys perfect security by disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself...
...distinction of sex puts men and women "in different classes of being. One is the force principle. The other is the beauty principle." Men had muscles. Women were soft, or at least they were very differently muscled. Bushnell's distinction survives, more or less, in a new movie called Perfect. The actress Jamie Lee Curtis plays a sleekly made aerobics instructor described by the movie's title. It is in another movie, Pumping Iron II: The Women, that Bushnell is definitively put in his place. In this semidocumentary about women body builders, one sees hormonal prodigies. The women are formidably...