Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thievery Pure and Simple...
...Your pious disapproval of the actions of ITT [April 2] in its attempt to overthrow the election of Chile's Allende leaves this writer unimpressed. The expropriation of ITT property without adequate compensation is thievery pure and simple, no different in spirit and effect than the act of a larcenist, embezzler or any other thief...
Debate. The quadriphonic howls of protest indicated that Ruckelshaus had passed one test of an impartial compromise: he outraged both sides about equally. Ralph Nader, Detroit's perennial fifth wheel,* charged that the EPA decision amounted to "capitulation to the domestic auto industry, pure and simple." Automen insisted that the interim standards are still too stiff. General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg pronounced himself "dismayed"; Henry Ford II pledged to "examine the avenues of administrative, legislative and legal recourse open to us" to get both the interim and final standards softened. The contrasting denunciations unintentionally symbolized what Ruckelshaus himself called...
THIS FILM bases its claim to our attention on pure and unabashed charisma. It works its magic so long as we are willing to suspend disbelief. But charisma, on the screen and off, must eventually perform in order to justify its hold; otherwise, it is a sham and an affront. Cesar and Rosalie doesn't perform; it really doesn't even attempt...
...most prolific improviser. Bird would blow 15 or 20 choruses on his alto saxophone without a repeat, then pause, breathe from his toes and blow ten more, bending and coloring the notes with a broad double-edged sound. Technically, his music was fiendishly complex; emotionally it was a pure sound riding a column of air that came straight from the gut. It was the kind of music musicians dream about...