Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, we should not be too quick to write these protesters off as just another band of yuppies. There is more to their movement than pure selfishness...
...year 930, the islanders had established the Althing, a republican legislature that endures to this day as the oldest parliament in the world. Their isolation kept them proud and self-reliant, and Iceland's language remained pure; it still is very close to Old Norse, and a committee monitors all neologisms. An idiosyncratic literature has developed based on the Viking sagas, which relate the nation's early history. Today Iceland has a 99.9% literacy rate, one of the highest in the world, while maintaining some curious folk traditions: a survey by the University of Iceland reported that nearly...
...structure of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer-prizewinning play was pure melodrama. An unhappy fortyish woman announces to her mother that she intends to take her own life that evening; the older woman tries many stratagems to avert the plan but fails in all of them. Improbable as this plot was, it permitted Norman to explore with sensitivity a dramatically less riveting, emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into...
...Pure silk TIE, crimson with gold stripes, at the Coop...
...contacts with the CIA going beyond the routine exchange of information that occurs when they interview officers in American embassies overseas. Doubtless the Kremlin is aware of all that, and cannot really believe Daniloff was a spy. He was -- and at week's end remained -- a hostage, pure and simple...