Word: puree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Paul II touched on the hope that keeps every American muddling through a life measured by matter, a life that weans itself on so much hypocrisy and disbelief, idealized by pure myth, a life that--more and more--becomes dehumanized and objectified and reduced to...a method...
...Behold the great priest). The Pope showed again how thoroughly he had been prepared for his trip by paraphrasing the words of John Winthrop, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, written aboard the Arabella as the ship approached America in 1630: "We must love one another with a pure heart We must bear one another's burden." Said John Paul: "These simple words explain so much of the meaning of life? our life as brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ...
...Ramones undoubtedly have something more to say to kids than "get lobotomized" or "get sedated," but it's not just "blow up your schools," as Rock and Roll High School makes it seem. Their songs are hymns to pure energy, and their movie ought to be more tightly-paced, faster-rhythmed. Rock and Roll High School smothers the Ramones with a thick glue-snort of T.V.-style jokes and befuddles any attempt to understand their spirit...
SEDUCTION ALWAYS WINS FRIENDS. Tim Curry knows this: his sinister, suggestive role as a sweet transvestite scientist in Rocky Horror Picture Show galvanized a nationwide cult. Flaunting himself provacatively, Curry struts about in garters and makeup, eyes narrowed, lips curled, singing out as the embodiment of pure lust. The fans scream hysterically, shouting at almost every phrase; they love it. Even the skeptic has to admit that the guy has something...
This time around the Halvonik case will probably wind up as a scriptwriter might have composed it. One day after his arrest, by pure coincidence, the California Supreme Court let stand a San Diego appellate court's ruling that police use of such devices as the Bushnell Spacemaster to gather evidence is unconstitutional, an Orwellian breach of a citizen's right to privacy. Thus Halvonik and his wife could be acquitted, leaving him free either to stay on the bench or to return to private practice and defend exactly the kind of case in which...