Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While such penalties remain pure speculation at this point, the heat of investigation surrounding Drexel is already driving away business, its competitors claim. The firm's headaches grew even more severe last week, when Staley Continental, an Illinois-based food company, sued the investment house for more than $200 million in damages in a case centering on Drexel's junk- bond operation. Staley claims that last November Drexel tried to push the food company's management into a deal to buy up the corporation's stock, which would have been financed by the investment firm. Drexel called the lawsuit...
...satirical story, "Something Pure," in which the Second Coming is incarnated in an advertising agent whose unorthodox sales techniques earn him hatred and ridicule, alerted an English professor to Reed's gifts as a storyteller and parodist...
...wild animals fetch back at least 2 million years. They represent, we imagine, the first order of creation, and they are vividly marked with God's eccentric genius of design: life poured into pure forms, life unmitigated by complexities of consciousness, language, ethics, treachery, revulsion, reason, religion, premeditation or free will. A wild animal does not contradict its own nature, does not thwart itself, as man endlessly does. A wild animal never plays for the other side. The wild animals are a holiday from deliberation. They are sheer life. To behold a bright being that lives without thought...
John Donne asked, "Was not the first man, by the desire of knowledge, corrupted even in the whitest integrity of nature?" The animals are a last glimpse of that shadowless life, previous to time and thought. They are a pure connection to the imagination...
...There is Johnson, who spends much of each year being chauffeured across America, picking sites for future motels through some instinctive knowledge of where future tired travelers will want to be treated to the comforts of home. Among the three dreamers, Disney seems the least fulfilled, his interest in pure animation chilled by his brother's insistence that Mickey Mouse stand up and act like a human...