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Word: pourrie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French are very much given to psychology and the like in their film making, and Inspector Maigret has more than its share. Mother-son, husband-wife, wife-mother-in-law relations are explored somewhat to the detriment of the story, but Gabin manages to turn the whole pot-pourri into a first-rate show...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Inspector Maigret | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly engage the democratic process in support of the muse usually wind up attempting to lift a few aristocrats from the debris. Lyonel Feininger was always...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Lyonel Feininger | 10/8/1958 | See Source »

Unless we judge a magazine on make-up or typicality, Summer's dish of pot-pourri fails to justify its seventy-five cents. Audience is heavy and directionless. And dull...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Big Little Magazines: Post-War Inflation in the Avant-Garde | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season (the worst, climatically speaking, in 78 years) as "l'été pourri"-the decayed summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Decayed Summer | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Despite its numerous personnel and extensive facilities, Hygiene still has big problems. Like a growing boy bursting through the seat of too-tight trousers, Hygiene must get some new clothes to function adequately. Stillman Infirmary is ancient, outmoded and inconvenient. The Hygiene building itself is bulging with a pot-pourri of clinics, laboratories, and offices that crowd in on each other with abandon...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Hygiene Cures Ills and Has Its Own | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

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