Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watching cluster of stars, extras and technicians, for that eight seconds of flawless acting was turned in by none other than Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Seems Morse was seated next to a movie executive on a recent plane ride, who suggested the Senator would make the perfect saddle man for a bit in a new film, Paint Your Wagon. Morse was delighted, even suggested the extra little business of standing in the saddle instead of just sitting there to deliver his five-word line. "His voice was good and strong," says Logan, "but of course...
Such remarks bring out the Irish in Dark Mirage's trainer, Everett King. "I can't find anything about her that isn't perfect," says King. "Horses are like people: you don't have to be big to have a good build. And how many great athletes have ordinary parents?" Besides, Dark Mirage's parents are no longer ordinary. Jack Ward, the Connecticut breeder who paid $6,000 for Persian Road II, has reportedly been offered six figures for the stallion; Home by Dark was purchased last week by James J. Hoolahan, an advertising executive...
...level of information in most American newspapers is insufficient, he explains. He says that "here, you have as perfect a system of secret control of your citizens as the Soviets have. It might be more sophisticated, but my people will not stand wire-tapping by a group like the FBI, in the future...
Substandard dialogue and music can sometimes be forgiven, though not enjoyed . But The Golden Screw is unforgiveably inane because Sankey looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero...
...higher vantage point with a wider angle of vision, we are jerked away from the luxury of watching action in sharp focus detail. The effect is one of ultimate suspension, in every sense of the word, and the greatness of the ending is a consequence of the perfect optical realization of attitude and theme...