Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with everyone gradually calming down about the revelations of Sarit's equally acquisitive financial dealings (TIME, July 17), his successor, avuncular General Thanom Kittikachorn, felt free to revive the competitions. The choice of the new Miss Thailand was almost painfully pure, with a member of the royal family sitting on the jury and each contestant's moral background under scrutiny-several girls of dubious vocation were hurriedly disqualified...
Despite its seeming effort to imitate operetta, Umbrellas is essentially pure fable, cleverly edged with pessimism. By exercising a stylistic savoir-faire that saucily regards faults as virtues, Director Jacques Demy transforms it into a film of unique and .haunting beauty. Suspended in silvery rain above a cobblestone street, the camera peers down at a crimson umbrella that is soon jostled by others into a colorful mosaic. Again, the tumbling of carnival masqueraders past a plate-glass window adds ineffable poignancy to Actress Deneuve's tranquil blonde perfection as she waits for Guy. And in her wedding scene, wearing...
Understandably, Americans aren't proud of New York. They say it's the crime, or the squalor but really they're on the defensive. They dread New York's sophistication, her toughness, her cynicism. They think she looks down her 80-story nose at them, considering anywhere else pure Dubuque. They know New York's got the power (the money, the industry, the communications) but fear she's without the responsibility to behave herself...
...haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...Aalto had planned a wall of his abstract trees, but the New York fire department feared a forest fire and ruled it out. But Aalto professed himself to be not at all disturbed, for the final result is a room that is sophisticated without sacrificing obvious handcraftmanship. Everything is pure high-altitude Aalto. Everything, that is, but the nubby brown carpet. Here another architect had been asked for an opinion. Her name? Mrs. Aalto...