Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Venice was also host last week to the world's most avant-garde explosion of pure sound-the first International Congress of Experimental Music. At daylong sessions, the audience settled down amid a welter of wires, loudspeakers and amplifiers to listen to the booms, moans, zips and roars that to some ears constitute the musical language of the future...
...open a new era for the steel industry. It could also lead to the quick building of a steel industry in underdeveloped countries. The smeltery is designed to take low-grade ores, contaminated ores, and ores so fine that they would choke a blast furnace, and produce iron so pure that it can be turned into steel in half the usual time...
...restaurant's liquor list reads like a South Sea adventure. After an encounter with a White Witch (pure white Jamaica rum) or a Rangoon Ruby (vodka and cranberry juice), the drinker may well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into...
...esthetic argy-bargy, One-Eyed Jacks turns out to be just a big, slick, commercial horse opera. The film, to be sure, is meticulously produced, directed, acted and "dited, and it is often startlingly beautiful to see-there is a sequence, photographed in Death Valley, that rivals in pure malign geology the finest frames of Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created by God and a little more by Brando, and others may realize that, if it were less pretentious. Jacks would be easier...
...also compared comedy with farce. "Pure aggression lies beneath the surface of farce.... The one simple pleasure is hitting someone in the jaw without getting hit back... There is no time to feel sorry; people are too bus punching noses...