Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer regrets passing up Stanford, USC or UCLA. "It might be good for some Harvard was the perfect place for me what class is from Harvard--everybody at Harvard is a winner...
...essays collected represent the years from 1977 to 1984. The later ones are the better crafted; Epstein seems to have hit perfect stride. Felicitous phrases, crisp construction, and clever cadences abound. Graced with wit, critical authority, and several rounds of silver bullets. Sheriff Epstein should make the literary delinquents quake...
...that the GSA should not convene a hearing to change the rules four years after the closing whistle. If it wants to avoid such imbroglios it should try / slipping a public-acceptability clause into its future commissions, if it can draft one that holds water. That way a perfect level of mediocrity can be upheld for all time. But Tilted Arc should stay, if not as a source of general pleasure, then as a didactic monument to the follies that can arise at the juncture of undemanding patronage and truculent aestheticism...
...live anywhere." He was dumbfounded. So he said, "Well, you can stay at my apartment." So I stayed there for the first two weeks. He didn't try to rape me or anything. He showed me where everything was, and he fed me breakfast. It was perfect. (In Southern-lady accent) I relied on the kindness of strangers. So then I auditioned and got a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey school. I wasn't worried about not getting anywhere as a dancer. I knew I was a decent dancer. It was great. I moved from one dive to the next...
...Rocky III kind of way either. I don't mean you have to go out and conquer the world and be a star. I mean, I came from a boring sort of middle-class life-style and a big family and I wasn't born with a perfect body...