Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recognizably based on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive police in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is perfect because this dream of a family man, whose actions are propelled by a pure form of bourgeois liberalism, is so unconscious an oppressor. Charles West...
...dealers in the Triangle began large-scale exports. They had discovered that they could reap huge profits by selling their heroin-which they refine from the morphine derivative of raw opium-to the burgeoning markets among the G.I.s in Viet Nam and elsewhere in the West. One kilo of pure heroin-which sells for $300 at the Burma-Thai border-is worth at least $3,000 in Saigon, $10,000 in Marseille and $50,000 in New York City...
Disney World, the giant, technologically pure preserve in central Florida which company executives unflinchingly refer to as "The Magic Kingdom," far exceeded original estimates with an attendance of 10 million in 1972, its first full year in operation. In the first few months of this year, attendance jumped another 8.6% as millions more plunked down an average $10 a head to trundle down superclean "Main Street" into the most audacious melange of futuristic urban planning and nostalgic cutsie-poo kitsch ever conceived...
PARADOXICAL, you might say, to begin at the end. But then, Gardner revels in paradox. In fact, his poem is not actually poetry at all. In the deep recesses of the classical unrhymed hexameter narrative lurks the novelist's imagination, concerned more with mechanics than pure, precise wordsway. John Gardner cannot deny his place in the traditional world of Henry James and the Novel of Ideas. Jason and Medeia affirms that fact once more...
...recognizably based on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive policy in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is perfect because this dream of a family man, whose actions are propelled by a pure form of bourgeois liberalism, is so unconscious an oppressor. Charles West...