Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...
...audience recognizes familiar gestures, can feel itself in water, space density, surrounded by all the natural objects this human being on the state creates with the aid of silence and fiction. It is an art of illusion, but it does not permit any trickery. The gestures must be pure, true and comprehensible. The Greek dramatist Lucian wrote: "The mime who is guilty of a false gesture commits a solecism with the hand...
...Marceau must have surpassed all his childhood ambitions. His show is a pure delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to form a right angle of it--he becomes a vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable...
...that "when the wind is south, it blows your bait into a fish's mouth." Through Walton's American disciple, Washington Irving, millions more have been apprised of the fact that "there is certainly something in angling ... that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, and a pure serenity of mind...
...wholly irreversible. A decade ago, Oregon's Willamette River was the most polluted waterway in the Pacific Northwest. Even scavenging fish could not survive its toxic atmosphere. After a concerted drive by environ mentalists, government officials and just plain anglers, the river has become so pure that the delicate trout and salmon can be found throughout its reaches...