Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhere between the novel and the picture, the character of Riviere became a little blurred. Barrymore plays it coolly and shrewdly but somehow never quite pulls the picture into perfect focus. Partly because the acting and camera work are splendid and partly because it is a sincere effort to investigate an engrossing subject, Night Flight remains an exciting and intelligent production. Robert Montgomery, Lionel Barrymore, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, have minor roles. Good shot: Jules Fabian's plane breaking through the clouds into moonlight...
Primates (monkeys, apes, men) are the only creatures who have both binocular and stereoscopic vision. "Only in man, of all the mammals, does there seem to be continuous easily kept, binocular and stereoscopic vision. Even in the human child, however, the eyes do not as a rule move in perfect unison with each other till about three months after birth, because stereoscopic vision, in the history of life on this planet, is an extremely recent appearance. The same fact explains the ready loss-of-binocularity (cross-eyes) in many persons as the result of optical errors (eye-strain). ... I should...
...falling ball ticked his glove, glanced away into the stand with Schulte sprawling after it. One of the umpires wanted to call it only a two-bagger but Mel Ott trotted around all four bases with the Giants' fourth run. ending the series as he began it, the perfect Hero...
...undergraduate owners of cars, of course, have a perfect right to expect cooperation from the University in the care of their chariots. Feasible plans for the erection of parking plots have been proposed; the expressed wish to spare garage owners is a sample of expedient altruism which is delectable but not very impressive. Most of the cars now in garages cannot be left in the night mists of Cambridge in any case; the older ones, which will gravitate to the lots, are now floating about alleys like shiny and disembodied ghosts, and bring revenue to no one but the benignant...
...Paris, oppressed by his own poverty, announced the close of the romantic movement. The mystic images, the gloomy flight from the world, the day of freedom of fancy was over. Today at 12 o'clock in Sever 6 Professor Silz will impart to those who desire it a more perfect conception of the splendid longings of the Romanticists than the Vagabond can hope to convey...