I was running out of US and I still hadn't quite found perfection although, for the first time, I was coming across Trump posters – none for Hilary.
With some regret for Mitropoulos's magnificent conducting, my choice falls to the Koch, partly because the recording quality of this radio broadcast results in a vividness of sound and text that make this like a radio play, and partly because Rysanek (in her first outing in the role of Chrysothemis, before she made her stage debut in it in 1954) and Ms. Varnay are, quite simply, perfection.
It was just about perfect, and because Mr. Cox seems like someone who doesn't quite believe in perfection, it was also too easy.
We picnic in a suntrap in the rocks at Puffin Bay, then wander along the cliff path to Belvoir Bay, which is, quite simply, beach perfection.
Bravo flicked across the line, the ball turned and clipped the off stump - very satisfying for the spinner, even if it did not quite rival the perfection of his hundredth Test wicket (Lara at Lord's).
Anyone who saw them on the catwalk together would not easily have forgotten the sight of these two American girls, having fun, with supermodel bodies that you couldn't quite believe the perfection of even though they were right in front of you.
Dance Magazine devoted its lead story to the film, saying that "the most extraordinary thing about Fantasia is, to a dancer or balletomane, not the miraculous musical recording, the range of color, or the fountainous integrity of the Disney collaborators, but quite simply the perfection of its dancing".
It is more likely, however, that Jesus the eschatological prophet regarded perfection as quite possible during the short period before the arrival of the Son of Man.
Not surprisingly this disc does not quite recapture the graceful perfection of "Oh, Inverted World"; it is not easy to follow up an album that sounds like an accident.
