Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years to come, Hollywood's script teasers will be calling "Louisiana Purchase" one of the most perfect syntheses of plot, music, and acting in musical comedy history. Right now it is the most entertaining picture of the season...
...high-water mark of the previous British advance across the desert&151;Erwin Rommel was in a perfect tactical spot. He held a shore position flanked on one side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied out last week his first thrust was tentative&151;only ten miles. Then he turned on more power. North along the seacoast rumbled his well-trained columns&151;tanks, ugly but efficient troop carriers, skittering little "People's Cars" used as staff cars...
Musically Porgy and Bess is least good when most operatic. The top songs in Porgy and Bess-Summer Time, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So, the duet Bess, You Is My Woman Now-flash out like perfect stones in too heavy a setting...
...operas go, Carmen, credible in story and neat in tunesmithing, is nearly perfect. But plump divas and paunchy tenors have often flawed it. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produced a new gypsy heroine, a slim, long-legged, flaunting quean. The Met's new Carmen, a recruit from the Brussels and Paris operas named Lily Djanel (pronounced John L.), was a bit wobbly in voice, especially in early moments of apparent stage fright. But she proved a plausible charmer, raised many a hair when she read death for herself in the cards...
...long as Adolf Hitler retains even a small foothold in Crimea, he has a perfect springboard for his promised second Russian offensive in the spring: a jump from the south smack into the rich oilfields of Baku...