Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly played, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...
AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly acted, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...
...pairs of pure, uncarved African elephant tusks were expected to bring their owner between $20,000 and $28,000 in an auction last week at Sotheby's in New York City. But they never made it to the block. Last week Sotheby's not only withdrew the tusks from sale but promised to stop dealing in elephant tusks or any jewelry, furniture or artwork containing ivory that is less than 50 years old. The change of heart was inspired by an outcry that began soon after the tusks appeared in Sotheby's catalog. Clients and environmentalists said the sale would...
...condescending and troubling one. In effect, it says to MIT that "we're too high and mighty to sully ourselves with such a vile institution as ROTC, but as long you're willing to prostitute yourself, we'll send our ROTC students over to you and thereby keep ourselves pure...
...favorite Corvette, and he gave a designer team jacket to the fellow who jockeys his offshore-racing boat. But Bernard is not some Johnny-come-lately cook with a jailhouse recipe in his jeans. He is a second-generation outlaw who at 16 learned how to extract pure methamphetamine from common industrial chemical solutions in a laboratory hidden on an Indian reservation. He was tutored by two German chemists flown in by his father. Bernard can't pronounce methylmethamphetamine, but he knows how to make something very like it and how much to charge. "I've worked hard for everything...