Word: puree
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Arcadia was the humanist's Club Med. In it, nothing happens. Shepherds and nymphs, young soldiers and scholars, madonnas, saints and animals loll about in a state of pure being, with no future tense. Arcadia has ruins, sometimes quite grand ones -- as in Claude Lorrain's classical revisions of the pastoral landscape, here represented by the Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, 1641 -- but Roman architecture does not include a stern call to Roman virtue and gravity. Arcadia's weather is always equable, and its views intimate and mellow. Above all, its location is not too far out of town...
Despite losing Co-Captains Bryan Randall and Len Baselak, Dartmouth still has the best pure shooter in the Ivies in senior Jim Barton. The Green co-captain was 14th in the nation in scoring, fourth in free-throw percentage, led the Ivies with a 23.8 points per game average and is the odds-on favorite to be the league's top scorer again...
Yale inserted backup quarterback Mark Brubaker with two minutes left in the first half to get the passing attack going. Brubaker is considered more of a pure passer than Kehler. He lost the starting job earlier this year after tossing 10 interceptions...
...today whether I was a doctor. I couldn't understand it, and told him that three years ago I defended my master's thesis and explained the difference between a master's and doctor's degree. It's clear now how that question came up. This was a pure fabrication...
...performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character on us. Instead, she asks us to search, as she must have had to, for the hard, pure, exemplary and not easily endearing innocence she found in Lindy Chamberlain. We respond to her art in the best way, with clear, dry eyes...