Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds at first Like pure youthful egotism: don't trust anyone over 25 to save the world. But Director Fonda and Scriptwriter Matthiesen are getting at something different. For all the kids' youth, energy and commitment, they do not do much better than their elders...
...difficult to find a pure situation in America," Ellison said, and when someone says that something is culturally pure, "we are usually dealing with historical and cultural ignorance...
...great Greek scientist Archimedes, the study of mathematics and physics meant far more than pure scholarship. Imaginative application of the laws he worked out led to eminently practical inventions-from contrivances employing the lever to an ingenious steam-powered cannon. Perhaps his most remarkable contribution to weaponry, according to Lucian, Plutarch and other ancient writers, was a "burning glass" that focused the sun's rays to set fire to Roman ships besieging his home town of Syracuse around 214 B.C. Exactly how Archimedes managed this spectacular use of solar power has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Many...
Only Alfred Drake, as Gaston's uncle, is an unalloyed delight though Agnes Moorehead as Gigi's worldly aunt is tartly amusing. As an inveterate and accomplished boulevardier with a mischievously saucy eye for maid or matron, Drake is a shameless charmer with voice that is pure gold. The score-much of it reprised from the film-is far and away the best part of the show. As for the negligible choreography, it seems rather like a course in ballroom deportment except for one cancan number, and anyone who can work up much excitement over the cancan...
...escapist fantasy, of course. It also caters to the immemorial fascination with a puzzle, something which has enthralled and tantalized generations of mystery addicts. On a deeper level, however, TV's idealized cops, lawyers and shamuses may satisfy a yearning for a more ordered world-a world where pure good triumphs over pure evil, where justice is just, where the System works...