Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout Paris, De Gaulle's direct appeal to the rebels (hinting of a quieter mediation already in progress) brought relief. It was a triumph, not of politics, but of pure personality that enabled him to make his offer; as always, he remained the man above party. In the coming elections, he said, he would "not disapprove" of any party's support, nor would he discourage opponents who "will make use of the liberty they accuse me of wanting to destroy." But his mission ruled out his taking any particular party's side. "This impartiality obliges...
...ahead on a TV quiz show proves to be pregnant by an unknown soldier: to save the show's honor, the girl must be married at once. At once the motor whirs, in dash the characters, and out bounce the gags, off falls the handle. It is pure, dedicated hackwork, with no sign that the authors ever once are writing down. There are two or three good mad situations, a dozen or so funny gags. Topping a helpful cast is Sam Levene, has both a born knack and an acquired skill at low comedy. He cannot come close...
...control-and Tebaldi is believed by her fans to have her operas in her throat as has no other singer of her generation. She is a great piano singer, capable of purling out almost endless pianissimos of varying shades. Her Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello are wonderfully pure yet warm-not crystals, but moonstones or pinkish opals. In Andrea Chenier, when the two lovers hail the dawn and go to the guillotine together, she is as radiant and fresh as the rising sun itself...
...existentialism, have jazzed up as something to be talked about; here it is something to be felt. Fury rejects, out of his own dumb innocence, every kind of forged card of identity offered him. He finds himself redeemed in a trance of love. That part of the book is pure corn-a simple and nourishing product...
...sitting on a sailor who had passed out in front of the Boston Public Library. The world surged into my stomach and I suddenly saw Tides of Passion as it really was. For $1.50 I had escaped for three full hours (there were several short subjects). Escape, pure and simple. At fifty cents an hour, what more could...