Word: flawless
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This English version of a cool but fascinating epic seems flawless. (Fitzgerald, 72, has already done superb modern translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey.) But such judgments are ephemeral...
...husband and assure him that she was unharmed. The agents moved in swiftly, arrested the trio and freed Quinonez, the wife of a former Salvadoran ambassador, who had been kidnaped from her home in Florida a week earlier. "I was flabbergasted," she said, praising the FBI's flawless rescue, which was executed before any ransom was paid. "It was just like watching TV, like Eliot Ness...
Still, even though he was left sitting at fogbound Kennedy without his "bird," NASA Chief James Beggs could rightly take pride in a mission performed in what he called "almost flawless fashion." Abrahamson fully concurred, pointing out that Challenger accomplished 96% of its objectives and that there were far fewer "anomalies" than on any previous mission, only 21 by preliminary count. (There were 42 anomalies on the last shuttle flight, in April.) Two of these, however, played a part in the decision not to prolong the flight another day or so in hopes of homing in at Kennedy. They involved...
...over, and Bond, instead of steeling himself for a stray tarantula under the sheets, found himself ruminating. Was she the good woman or the bad one? In each of his assignments, it seemed, there was always one of each. That makes 24, no, 26 of them, each one flawless and passionate, each succeeding pair more considerate of his advancing age. Did spies get performance anxiety, or herpes? Or just bored with the reproduction of perfection...
...with the attack leading the way for much of the season, the emergence of the defense yesterday couldn't have come at a better time. Not that the defense hasn't played well before. And not that the defense was flawless yesterday--by any means...