Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HENRIK: So visceral, Bert, so much the peasant. So what do they give me? Yakutis, Miss Susan Yakutis, interprets Hilde Wangel. She has a honeyed voice, Bert, a throat that lets slip pure and full sounds. A richly voweled music breaks from her. But her face is too fleshy, her stature too mean to be a princess. She stamps and pouts too much. Here is this woman, who should be a cistern of demonic forces, and she lets you think she quarrels over prices at the butcher...
...paraphrase W. C. Fields, anybody who loves small children can't be all good. The public image aside, Bobby Hull is a pure, all-wool, elemental man, a stogie-chomping, beer-drinking, four-letter guy who said "I do" to a hasty marriage at 18. His second wife, Joanne, is a onetime figure skater; in eight years of boisterously happy marriage, the two of them have worked up a boffo routine. He comes home growling like a bear. She roars back...
After the audience has deserted Mailer, it heaps its affections upon soft-spoken Lowell. Mailer describes his feelings as he watches Lowell perform: Mailer felt hot anger at how Lowell was loved and he was not, a pure and surprising recognition of how much emotion, how much simple and childlike bitter sorrowing emotion had been concealed from himself for years under the manhole of his contempt for bad reviews...
...year chairman and chief executive officer of Cities Service Co. two years ago, John L. Burns admitted that his experience in the petroleum industry amounted to knowing how to "fill the tank of my car." Yet he figured that he could do the job through pure executive ability...
...chroniclers of their time, protesters against injustice. But today's troubadours are turning away from protest. Their gaze is shifting from the world around them to the realms within. "They are taking stock of what they are," says one folk buff, "purging themselves until they feel sensitive and pure...