Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DeLillo reconstructs an Oswald and a series of events from the 26 volumes of the Warren Report. Because this is fiction, the outlines of Oswald and of the events are clear. Everything in the novel has a hard factual edge. Everything sounds reported, even what must be pure speculation. When the characters descend into dialect or private associations, DeLillo often lets his narrative voice accompany them, but this is not a relaxation of his distant, researched style. The diction or the sentence structure may change, but the tone never slips; DeLillo remains detached...
Ellwood argues that a pure welfare system--in which poor people would be given specific amounts of money to compensate for their low income--is bound to continue to be intensely criticized because it goes against basic American values. Welfare isolates and degrades its recipients, while fostering distrust and animosity among the general public, he argues...
...spark disagreement, not so much over their causes but over such things as risk and motivation. "What was going on inside the person?" says Graham. "Did the whistle-blower really have an ax to grind? Was the volunteer organizer simply having a good time?" And these heroes must be pure of heart: "We want people who can achieve without resort to meanness...
...separate raids, Spanish authorities last week seized 15 tons of pure hashish and nabbed two of the world's biggest drug smugglers. Acting on tips from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami, police detained British-born, Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks, whose alias is Marco Polo. U.S. officials believe Marks has been responsible for importing nearly 15% of America's marijuana over the past several years. Until his arrest, the drug lord lived quietly on Majorca -- "to escape British taxes," he explained...
...spinning fables in which youth is its own reward. The summer hit Big teaches that a 13-year-old boy can find love with the proper career woman and succeed in business without really trying. Who'd ever care to be a grownup when childhood is portrayed as so pure, so powerful, so enlightenedly selfish...