Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free-skating event, a judge gave her a mark of six-a rare, perfect score. Barbara Ann won the European figure-skating crown easily over Boston's Gretchen Merrill. Canadians were not surprised: Barbara Ann had already been voted Canada's outstanding athlete, the first time a girl was ever so honored...
...problem of staging its show in Sanders Theater. We felt that it would be foolish to attempt light comedy in the gloomy confines of the Cothic monstrosity that is Sanders. After looking through all of Shaw's works, we came to the conclusion that 'Saint Joan' would be a perfect play for the type of show that is most effective in Sanders...
...most of the journalists who might be competent to deal with it would regard themselves as bound by conscience to make the picture either as black or as white as possible: either to show that those glorious creatures, our industrial leaders, are fashioning for us a system ever more perfect, or else that those horrid predators, the millionaires, are fastening upon us the chains of fascism...
...Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...
...having Stewart right in its middle, not fully believing or understanding what's happening, and actually going through a desperate and painful experience. It is this combination of reality and fantasy, the merging of the elements of both without spoiling the effect of either, that Capra handles with perfect control, and moulds into a great scene...