Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Start again. This time Diana was only 13 feet tall and perfect - an 800-lb. beauty of gilded sheet copper...
...those who have prejudged the South Vietnamese elections as fraudulent. "We ought not to be astonished," he observed in a White House talk, "that the nation, racked by a war of insurgency and beset by its neighbors to the north, has not already emerged, full-blown, as a perfect model of two-party democracy." But even this statement was probably too late to dispel the public's skepticism about the elections, however ill-founded...
...extended for 600 years down to the 19th century. Culling the best from British collections, London's Victoria and Albert Museum is displaying a matchless, summer-long exhibition of 184 examples to demonstrate that Persian miniatures are, as Director John Pope-Hennessy puts it, "one of the most perfect arts the world has known...
Stars by Day, Light by Night. As fabulous as the workmanship is the entrancing world of fantasy that the Persian miniaturists had to work with. Take the old legend about the lovely heroine Fitna, who poked fun at the king's archery. "Practice makes perfect," she sniped, as he executed one of his master shots. Some bards had it that the king in a pique then rode his camel over her, but others thought Fitna too clever for such an ending. To get back in his good graces, the story goes, she arranged for the king to catch...
Everything that went before was supposed to be just practice as four U.S. 12-meter yachts squared off in the final America's Cup elimination trials off Newport, R.I. If so, practice makes perfect. After five days of round-robin match racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial...