Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank: "What makes Zsa Zsa Gabor? I myself feel you are a woman in the unadulterated form who might have lived 100 years ago-pure and chaste...
Frank: "I mean that you are a pure example as something discovered in Greece 2,000 years ago. There's freedom, a freshness, a spontaneity. Is it just a complete and artful acceptance of your own femininity? Let's say you've just come into a room...
...Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light, and that her face beamed like the moon when it was full"'). In short, the book-a sure bestseller-is about on a par with the five-and-ten plaster statues of the saints and prettily painted picture postcards of Christ...
...juvenile hormone may prove to be a substance that controls growth in mammals as well as insects. But so far Dr. Williams has not isolated the pure hormone or determined its chemical character, points out that its presence in mammalian tissues may be only a biochemical curiosity...
...Oscar-sized honor in a crooner-crazed land. This week Piove, a mawkish tale about lovers parting at a train station, flowed across the U.S. on hot platters pressure-cooked by Decca, is almost sure to be another smash hit for Modugno. He freely admits that his stuff is pure corn-on-the-sob, but happily asks: "Why not? Is not the heart eternal...