Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others executed their parts straight-forwardly from stand or hand-held score. The production never decided what it was going to be. As a result the audience never knew if it was supposed to be caught up in the drama of the thing or appreciating the work for its pure musical value. The awkward silence preceeding the applause after each number was a telling sign of the audience's confusion...
President Johnson has already issued a confidential directive to all departments and agencies halting bugging not "fully in accord with the law and with a decent regard for the rights of others." How this will be interpreted by the FBI or the IRS--or such reputed eavesdroppers as the Pure Food and Drug Administration and the Bureau of Narcotic--is still left to the administrators of those agencies...
...Pure Escapism. Nicholson, a former usher who graduated to theater owner, first met his partner in 1952 when, on behalf of a client, Attorney Arkoff threatened suit for title infringement. Impressed with each other's skill at infighting, they decided to join forces, borrowed $3,000 and turned out their first production, The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. To shave expenses, they reduced the monster's role to something resembling an oversexed vaporizer, but Beast was a screaming success, owing almost entirely to the pull of the title and the practice of "saturation booking" -showing the feature...
A.I.P.'s cinemologists are sharply aware that kids are the big movie market nowadays. And, "explains Arkoff, they don't want message pictures. They want "pure escapism, a never-never land without parents, without adults, without authorities. Kids get lectures from their parents all the time. They don't want to hear them from...
...Reading Dynamics operation, which has justly been called the greatest advertising campaign since the comeback of Hertz, was not always based on the pure money ethic. In fact, Evelyn Wood is a deeply religious person and she considered her first attempts at commercialization in 1960 more in terms of a religious crusade: "Why have I dared to believe that reading down the page, at speeds held by many experts to be impossible, can be done? Perhaps it is because my deep religious convictions teach me that 'a man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge;' that...