Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garfein and Willingham present only the bare facts of the story and refuse to construct any sort of frame of reference which would help in interpreting it. While a pure thriller in many ways, the film cries out for interpretation. This necessity, however, does not in any way detract from the quality of the picture, but in fact adds an extra dimension to its interest. If I may still be permitted to voice a bit of sociological jargon of my own, the story of De Paris seems at bottom to represent the conflict between a very tightly organized society...
...necessity and depth of this "pure form" in the art of the nude is clearly underlined. Perhaps the central theme of the work is an insistence that the nude is one of the most austere problems of design. The bulk of his analysis argues the continuity of this almost abstract design in the nude throughout Western art. He finds echoes of the design of the influencial classical works--Knidian Aphrodite, Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, et al.--repeated and reworked, reasserting themselves after generations or even centuries. The most striking example of this that he gives is a comparison of a nude...
...favorite to go to the Henley regatta in July, depending on the result of the sprints next week. Princeton, last year's winner of the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, is rated a slight favorite this afternoon, but any prediction concerning such a race would be no more than pure guess work...
...book simply boring. The extensive reflections of Josh, who is a pretty colorless character despite his importance, are liable to make the reader impatient. And the retelling of certain incidents from different points of view, while sometimes highly effective, is also frequently exasperating. Here, in his fidelity to a pure understanding of his subjects, Sourian carries writing about what he knows to the brink of tedium...
Today the invading woodsmen bring an undefeated record to Soldiers Field, as their 2-0 mark is the only pure slate besides Yale's. Repetto may oppose Van Riper again, but the more probable Green choice is righthander Ron Judson, whose fine curve ball is sometimes offset by a tendency to wildness...