Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metal that reportedly fell to earth in 1957 when a UFO exploded in the air above the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, was sent to a Washington laboratory for analysis. It had been an article of faith among many saucer believers that the fragment consisted of magnesium more pure than any ever made by man. The lab tests, said the report, suggested an earthly origin; the fragment contained more impurities than commercially produced magnesium...
...fact that politics "operates with very special means, namely power backed up by violence," and so one requires a special and sensitive ethic of political conduct. Weber goes on to suggest two such: the ethic of ultimate ends, under which one takes actions on the basis of one's pure and good intentions regardless of the immediate consequences--even though these may be the opposite of what is desired. This kind of thinking is identified by Weber as being common among those possessed with religions zeal. The other ethic is that of responsibility, in which one judges one's actions...
...tale of a Super-thief and his sexy girlfriend who inhabit a sumptuous underwater playground which makes Dr. No's look like Rindge Tech. It doesn't matter: film-making as slick and out-landish as Bava's is quite infectious, and Danger: Diabolik proved one of the few pure pleasures...
...willful fantasy by Luis Bunuel compensates for its personal eccentricities by being so tolerant of the perversions of its characters. Raymond Durgnat (I think) points out that Bunuel's preoccupation with fetishist love differs little from, say, Max Ophuls' preoccupation with sentimental romance--that all forms of love are pure, and identical in the eyes of whatever strange God Bunuel worships. Belle de Jour is a film-maker's film, uncompromisingly unclinical, its often shocking material bathed in the warm yellow-brown glow conveyed by sensuous moving shots...
...pure imagination must have been responsible for Gary's artistic ease in inhabiting the soft purlieus of the feminine psyche otherwise occupied by Jimson's earthy early love, Sara Monday. Nor did any known experience equip Cary to see the world through the eyes of a displaced Cockney lad in Charley Is My Darling...