Word: puree
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...deal with issues of communication and miscommunication in a modern world, through manipulation of audibility, visual diffusion of images, juxtaposition of sound and vision and soundless gesture. Though the "message" of each work seems at times overstressed and obvious, ironically this frees the mind to focus on the pure, sensual beauty of the work as a whole...
Each day, right after the Pledge of Allegiance is mindlessly recited, schoolchildren, teachers and administrators should observe a mandatory minute of pure, unadulterated silence. After the 60th second had passed, students and educators would be free to move along with the rest of the school...
...score and plot are mimed-out with plucky good-naturedness by the cast, which is completely dominated by its women. Deneuve looks so breakably pure as Genvieve, replete with little bows and white gloves, that even she seems relieved by her deflowerment. Her feline mother slinks about in tight black cocktail dresses and blood red suits, exuding sheer power via over-ripe sensuality and bartering Genvieve off to the highest bidder. Madeline, the 'plain girl' whom Guy eventually settles for, looks exactly like the goody-good martyr she is, with immaculately well brushed hair and the inevitable hairband. Measured against...
...Cherbourg was nearly lost to this world when the original negatives were damaged and the prints all faded to unintelligablity--his widow and the score's composer Legrand remastered "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" from surviving remnants. How grateful we should all be for the chance to freebase on this pure, unadulterated kitsch, this seven-gun salute to the blonde virgin in a pink frock and matching bow which lives, at some level...
...rock 'n' roll, but he thinks Madison Avenue," says John Sykes, president of the music video network vh1 and a friend of Tigrett's. "He is building a quality brand--you come and hear the blues, buy a burger and a T shirt on the way out. That's pure Isaac. He's not a quick-buck guy. He thinks long-term, and he puts together very solid franchises...