Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toru enters Honda's household, and is reared into the Western manners of the modern Japanese. Honda tells him, "Good breeding means a familiarity with the Western way of doing things. We find the pure Japanese only in the slums and in the underworld." Yet Honda has a deeper motivation for this deliberate polishing of the boy's character: He hopes to avert fate, to save the boy from the tragic death which befell each of the other three incarnations of Kiyoaki, by immersing him in the banalities of polite society...
...Manhattan after a brief but glamorous appearance in the film Airport 1975 and was delighted to provide the details of the regimen that keeps her in shape. Sprouted grains for one thing. "They have plenty of chlorophyll that cleanses the blood and makes the body smell pure. There is no odor to my sweat." After breakfasting on dried and crumbled whole-grain bread kneaded with carrot juice and topped with rice polish, lecithin, yogurt and a tiny ripe banana, Gloria sometimes skips around the house. "I'm a regular hausfrau, but I still need more exercise." Gloria plans...
...Geneva. Joe stumbles upon a villa containing Byron, Shelley and Mary Shelley, who is writing Frankenstein. His subsequent relationship with Mary is dominated by the presence of Dr. Frankenstein and friends, who are quite as "real" as Mary, their creator. Joe comes to see Frankenstein's pursuit of pure scientific truth without social responsibility as the root of modern technological society, where "the head had triumphed over the heart...
...greatest stories ever told) by Roman followers of Caravaggio. One of those two paintings is of special interest because it was done by one of the few women artists of the day, Artemesia Gentileschi. Gentileschi--the victim of a scandalous rape--knew full well that no man is entirely pure, and shows Joseph during a moment of hesitation before rejecting Ms. Potiphar's advances...
...mouse with a glandular condition. The film's plot--a vaguely confusing story about gun-running--is mildly compelling and tangentially political. This is the confrontation between the matured Bogie and the teen-aged Lauren Bacall. She's just as tough-assed as he is, and the combination is pure magic...