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Word: pureed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion that ended up in a Chinatown sportswear shop. There it was the agent's turn to inspect the wares: a cardboard box packed with 14 plastic bags containing 20 Ibs. of pure No. 4 white heroin from Southeast Asia. Street value: $10 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

James Gillogly, programmer of Tech and a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon, regarded the game as a contest between brute force and intelligence. His program is extremely simple and was developed in about six months, which is relatively quick. Gillogly believes that the pure technological approach to chess programming, which involves few strategic ideas, can serve "as a baseline against which more sophisticated programs can be compared, thereby determining whether the development of a complex program is worth the effort...

Author: By Peter Koretsky, | Title: Computers Compete in Sheraton Chess Match | 8/22/1972 | See Source »

Though the film is pure melodrama, obviously an attempt to create a new popular black hero and not to rip apart Harlem or the cocaine trade directly, one scene is so incisively written and acted with such conviction that it almost transcends its context to make a sad and angry statement on the black condition. Priest needs thirty keys of dope, an unprecedented figure for a pusher, in order to enable him to act on his first plan--simply to sell enough and get out. With his more cynical partner Eddie, Priest goes to the old friend...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Super Fly | 8/22/1972 | See Source »

...patron of the artist's declining years. Creaky and inspirational, the scene at least has a style that might grow on a sympathetic viewer. Alas, hardly has Leonardo expired when a young "guide" in a modern business suit comes on camera, pointing out that the scene is pure fiction, lifted from admiring contemporary accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dubbed Genius | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...minutes of screaming, shouting, chanting applause, with a personal attempt by the MC that finally brings them back, and into "El Tonto de Nadie, Regressa," 27 minutes that proves their musical expertise. The song is a montage of tempo changes, and a collage of guitar styles, blues, bluegrass, and pure country. Paul's lead guitar structures and organizes the piece. Timothy Schmit's sense of the bottom of the sound, and the variety of things that can be played, while maintaining the all-important bottom, is staggering, as well as his instinctive knowledge of Paul's tendencies on guitar. Richie...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Child's Claim to Fame | 8/15/1972 | See Source »

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