Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laboratory and is seduced by his grandfather's dreams--providing the set-up for a spoof of every major scene in the original film, interrupted by the tangents of Brooks's imagination and concluded by a resounding coda. Wilder alternates moments of deadpan lucidity with the sudden spasms of pure manic fury that characterize the egotist/neurotic. He turns ordinary comic ineptitude into a thoroughly debilitating frenzy that intensifies as the dire experiment proceeds; the riotous heights of the film...
Bernstein, who knows better, often finds tonality where there is none. According to him, the strings in Ives' Unanswered Question play nothing but "pure tonal triads" in C major. What he doesn't say is that the final chord is unresolved, because he wants to claim that "eternal, immortal tonality" is the answer to the solo trumpet's question, which Ives, after all, meant to be unanswered...
...after day last week, the President was out on the slopes high above the winter resort of Vail, Colo. For the most strenuously physical man to occupy the White House since Teddy Roosevelt, the exercise was pure tonic. The setting, however, was slightly incongruous. Vail is an elegant winter resort, the place where John Lindsay, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and numerous Kennedys come to play. Carved out of a wilderness twelve years ago, Vail is a high-priced retreat where the après-ski attractions include continental restaurants, 28 heated pools and smart boutiques for snow bunnies...
...cartel, the two leaders also defrosted Franco-American relations a bit. At home, the Administration's energy experts finally completed the package of options from which Ford must select hard choices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Rumsfeld finished work on a White House staff overhaul ("It's pure Jerry Ford," he said). And, at long last, a glaring void was filled when Nelson Rockefeller was confirmed and sworn in as Vice President...
...fact: Stone-house's wife, who has stuck to her assumption that he drowned at sea, first denied and then later admitted that she had taken out some $160,000 in insurance policies on her husband's life in recent months. She insists that the timing was pure coincidence, while allowing that it was a "jolly inconvenient" time in the light of subsequent events. In any case, she did have ample reason to take out extra life insurance on her husband. Last summer Stonehouse's car was blown up by one bomb and another was found...