Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cult of genius, the idea that reverie is greater than reason. Fragonard even more daringly juxtaposes colors, such as the reds on the yellow cheek, without transitions of tone-a foretaste of impressionism. Yet the painting's casualness-revered in its day as sublime and picturesque-is a pure rococo attitude...
Chevalier is sly and charming as the invalid invalid. Gingold is pure gold as his nutty nurse, a suspicious spinster who sleeps with a large sheepdog in her bed and keeps giving her patient ambiguous invitations-"If you want a pill," she murmurs, "call me." Fast company, that, but Goulet somehow contrives to stay with the pace. And Williams, a young singer who looks like Bing Crosby and sounds like several other people, carries off the wackiest sequences in the picture...
...FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrates movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing...
Hardly had Johnson taken office last November when the Veep-guessing game began. From the very start, Humphrey ranked high, and little wonder. He would, after all, balance the ticket almost to perfection-Northerner Hubert with his pure liberalism and appeal to labor, along with Southwesterner Lyndon with his more conservative bent and appeal to the business community...
Despite their modern idiom, contemporary Spaniards like Guinovart still live in homage to their ancestral art. None is all that distant from Goya's black nightmare paintings. Their colors are gloomy or veiled. They rarely use oils pure from the tube but rather blend them with earths to make their impastos. They seem, like the flamenco dancer holding his head high while his feet stomp in the dust, trapped in a tragic, often elegant, dilemma between formality and earthiness...