Word: puree
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...either side to celebrate its fall. The Whitney retrospective ends with the pictures he made there. Strobe-lit crowd shots full of wild spirits, they hint that freedom has its demented side and that the end of communism might unleash new terrors of its own. Are those pictures pure reporting, or are they artifice? And is this the right line of inquiry? Perhaps instead of worrying about where Avedon falls on the continuum between death and Dovima, we should recognize that his pictures are distillations from a world where mortality and freedom -- and style -- are all permanent problems. Even this...
...first rap albums to feature crazily layered funk samples and undermixed vocals. Along with De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising, I think that this is one of the most influential rap records ever. Even if the "mellow rap" legacy is being threatened right now, the pure funk of Paul's Boutique is alive and well--in Dr. Dre's hands among others. The Beastie Boys' most recent offering, Check Your Head, features a mix of sampling and live performance, another new and powerful trend. And remember, this is from white guys! The only people...
...Cornel West combines the two dimensions of scholarship: pure scholarship and scholarship that is applied to real issue," says Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson...
...works hard and plays by the rules," the rules don't always apply in the Clinton White House. Critics recall the infamous haircut on the runway, the summary firing of the travel staff, the use of the FBI to investigate the travel operation. "The Clinton message is 'I'm pure,' " said a veteran of the Reagan White House, " 'I'm above the law.' It's almost Nixonian. And it's a tragic flaw...
...dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision as "pure Hollywood . . . the fantasies of a young boy from California who had never taken an interest in the Holocaust or the Jews before." Both critics were reflecting the view of Claude Lanzmann, director of the 1985 death-camp documentary Shoah. "It is seen from a very slanted angle, almost like...