Word: puree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vakeel, who lent her own gold-and-silver-threaded theater coat for John's raiment. Ringo wears silk tweed, with jute-thread-embroidered collar and wooden prayer beads. George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian but of Indian design, was borrowed from Liberty's of Regent Street, where it was priced...
John Crowe Ransom says that Jarrell wore a "triple crown"-"a pure Pity, an embracing Weltschmerz, and a wry ironic Wit." The pity sometimes seemed absent from his own reviews. Alfred Kazin recalls a sideswipe in which Jarrell wrote that some crypto poet's work had "hidden treasures," but that finding them was "like looking for the gold in sea water." This sort of wit provided the sparkle to his otherwise brackish novel, Pictures from an Institution...
...wasted as heat, the Mexican installation feeds its hot exhaust gases and heated coolant water into a heat exchanger. Sea water pumped through the exchanger is heated to 160° F., and then passed into a tower evaporator. About 10% of the heated water is vaporized, condensed into pure water on the sea-water-cooled coils of an adjacent condenser tower and stored in a fresh water tank...
Puerto Penasco's people are already receiving fringe benefits of a technology that may someday support thousands of new desert towns. In addition to moistening the greenhouse soil, the 6,000-gal. daily output of pure water is given to the local hospital and school and is bottled and sold as "Agua Solar" to help defray the plant's operating expenses. And the cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and other vegetables produced in the greenhouses are given away free to local residents...
...pure pornography, he is pitifully outclassed by both Henry Miller and William Burroughs...