Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apologists for abstract painting like to warn against reading too much into such pictures. They are supposed to be seen "purely as paintings." This is like asking people not to daydream at concerts. Whether it be "pure" or merely obscure, whether "pioneering" or just playing, abstract-expressionism is something to dream and wonder over...
When Poe left the house of "Old Swell-Foot" Allan, poems were literally a penny each.*His death-haunted spirit could not long function in the field of pure poetry, but Poe carried heavy weapons in journalism, which, to him, was a corpse-littered no man's land between art and business. By peddling and shamelessly pushing his articles and stories, by the needlework of his aunt and his grandmother's minuscule pension ($240 a year derived from Grandfather Poe's services during the Revolution), Edgar kept alive in the "literary snake pit" of 19th century...
...pressure of the patch, not to the supposedly allergenic substance. In their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing a cotton blouse under the wool sweater usually solves the problem...
...commissioner was frozen, all right -but with pure anger. Barked Tough Cop Kennedy, who brooks no doubt about his responsibility and authority: "If the police are unionized, I advise the people not to waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised...
...Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from its "competitors, other stores in Texas or Alaska, or for that matter anywhere in the U.S. or in the world." If a gift is pure junk, the store said it would still pay the recipient $1, donate the gift to the Salvation Army...