Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Teddy White wasn't a perfect journalist, none of us is, what was good about Teddy is that he kept trying to improve his trade," Apple said...
...organ transplants performed in the U.S. each year are often successful only because the patients take a daily dose of cyclosporine. The drug keeps their immune systems from attacking and rejecting the foreign organs. But it is not perfect. Some 70% of patients getting a new liver, for example, still suffer rejection episodes. And many organ recipients face life- threatening side effects from cyclosporine, including an increased risk of cancer and heart disease...
Beth began the year hopelessly lost. The night before registration she showed up in my room waving a schedule she claimed was perfect. I still don't know how she found a class that met at 7:30 a.m. in Vanserg...
...also cannot figure out why she considered five English seminars "perfect," but in her delusions, she did. Fortunately, I was there to guide her into the wonderland of the Core. And how would she know about...
...mistake to see Woody Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...