Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, Harvard may be a more interesting team to follow than its predecessors, because it doesn't blow anyone off the field, score on picture perfect pass plays, or win on pure skill. The reason, I think, is simple: Harvard soccer is again being played, after several years of foreign-dominated squads, by Americans who, while perhaps not as good as the Gomez's, Thomas's and Hinze's of the past, deserve a chance to play, an opportunity afforded to relatively few Americans during Harvard's years...
CHARLIE, the central figure in Streets, is a mob underling who collects "payments" for his uncle, the local boss. Harvey Keitel's countenance has the tight-bunched look of Charles Bronson, but it is more than tough. The face shows weathered tension burying pure fear. You see him first kneeling at the altar, dwarfed in the dizzying bowels of the Catholic church. It is after confession, and Charlie is clealy no ordinary sinner, looking grimly pained as he repeats his dozen Hail Marys. The interior monologue begins: "They're just words, it's all bullshit...
...shells, stamps, coins, butterflies and finally books. By 1923, Lewis had acquired 1,000 books of English literature. "I really didn't care about them," he says. "Yet I knew if I could get interested in one person, I could have a direction for life." Through pure serendipity*-a chance remark of a friend at a dinner party-Lewis came upon the writings of Walpole and found a direction...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died four years ago at the age of 83, was by general consent one of the three grand masters of early modern architecture, along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Mies' pure, honed elegance, as seen everywhere in his works, from his famous Barcelona chair (1929) to his glass-curtain walls, has transformed the appearance of every major city on earth. No modern architect has been more widely (or in most cases more clumsily) imitated...
...prose requires a working knowledge of market terminology. Some of his stories are long digressions from the sweep of his history. Never mind. He is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers "high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination and belonging...