Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the world chess title from Boris Spassky. Russia, chess master to the world for a generation, has been abruptly undone by an upstart. The U.S.S.R. has long instructed its citizens that in chess (as in all things) their strength was the strength of ten because their hearts were pure, their Lenin clean. Americans, by contrast, scoffed at the game as one for myopic children and old men on park benches...
Spassky's defeat was no national disaster for Russia; after all, chess is a game, not warfare. Still, it is fascinating to speculate about the geopolitical implications. If pure hearts no longer prevail, what then is the future of the Soviet communal ideal? Perhaps the senses should now be allowed to soar in Russia, personal competitiveness be exalted, and the model of the disciplined intellect be scrapped in favor of the search for self-comfort in cars, cuisine and water beds. And if a brainy kid from Brooklyn becomes the all-American hero, should not the U.S. close...
...were juxtaposed against one another. The primary motif became a radiating diamond pattern of such bright colors that the blankets were called "eye-dazzlers." Pictorial representations-figures of horses and cows, bows and arrows, houses and trains-also came into fairly general use, thus breaking the long tradition of pure abstraction...
...argued that Ling was partly a victim of pure bad luck. While the economy was surging, LTV could paper over its weaknesses and use its rising stock to buy more companies. Then the Nixon Administration's anti-inflation "game plan" led to the recession and stock market collapse of 1969-70. That in turn shook out many of the glib-talking hustlers who had built too big on shaky foundations. Further, the Administration, responding to complaints from established businessmen that the conglomerate operators were dangerous predators, started a particularly vigorous antitrust drive. Jim Ling was its prime target. Justice...
...Jeffrey Cohen has rigged his telephone with an answering device that announces that yes, he is Mr. March. Village Voice Columnist Howard Smith, who appears as Mr. November, wrote a column about his role. "I loved it. Such physical attention was a kind of gentle titillation. Being such a pure object as a photographed nude is a strange pleasure that shouldn't be monopolized by women only...