Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moocher and Ludwig von Shtickfritz; no one but the D'Oyly Carte's Martyn Green has ever pattered half so perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune. His routines include six chimpanzees and ten singers (the humans are taller), but mostly Kaye depends...
...rest of the program was for the most part undistinguished. Erick Hawkins' "Early Floating"--an "exploration in the pure fact of movement," choreographed in silence--was merely a study and an exercise. As someone has so clearly said of nouelle vague films, why is it that these things are never too short? The patterns of bone and muscle in the dancers' bare legs were the most interesting part of the composition. When this is all that holds one's attention, what one is watching may be "exploration," but it is not dance...
Even then, Zermatt officials publicly pooh-poohed rumors of an epidemic. The Zermatt Tourist Office pronounced Zermatt's water "99.93% pure," while local citizens denounced the "foreign sensationalist press" for reporting the gossip...
Down Home. The music came from the same pure stream Gus first tapped while working along the Mississippi levees and bumming around on Beale Street-the honest blues invented by people who had something to be blue about. But success now altered the atmosphere. Stax engineers tried hard to get a bluesy ''down-home" sound, and an English professor named John Quincy Wolf stood by as a consultant on ethnic authenticity. The Voice of America even sent a reporter to Cannon, armed with a tape recorder and an only-in-America enthusiasm: "This could be the start...
...goldsmith in Naples in 1892, he was brought to New York when he was nine. He be came a jeweler's apprentice by day, an art student at night. While roaming Europe in the early '30s, he flirted-but only flirted-with the abstractionists' world of pure forms and shapes. Back in Manhattan, he turned almost exclusively to nudes, refining his style until his surfaces were as smooth as a young woman's skin...