Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pure Velocity. Few athletes have the protean talent to do that, which is why there have been only a handful of authentic superstar catchers in the chronicle of baseball. Roger Bresnahan, who teamed with Christy Mathewson on the old New York Giants, was probably the earliest, and Bill Dickey of the 1930s New York Yankees was possibly the greatest. Others in the pantheon are Gabby Hartnett, Detroit's Mickey Cochrane, and an earlier Redleg, Ernie Lombardi, whose style and skills closely parallel Bench's own. It may well be that Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays...
...augment the pure velocity of his arm, Bench has trained himself to do two things: catch the ball with one hand, and cock and fire from a crouch. Originally Bench was a traditionalist; he caught the ball with his left and covered it with his right. Taking the cue from the older Hundley, Bench switched to a hinged catcher's mitt that enabled him to snare a pitch with one hand and thus keep his right hand free -from harm, as well as to throw more quickly. Then he practiced for hour upon hour transferring the ball swiftly from...
...cheeks and full, wavy hair give him the bright man-child appearance to complement the 33 -year-old character's infantile emotions. But when Benjamin opens his mouth, he seems about as out of place as Howdy Doody in Hamlet. His readings of Roth's lines are pure balsa wood...
...burdened middle-class whites in Pittsburgh. The emotional and Utopian character of recent radicals offended Alinsky's sense of pragmatism. He had no patience with either revolutionary black separatists or white hippie dropouts because both "dogmatically refuse to begin with the world as it is," scoffed at pure theorists because "a movement without organization is nothing more than a bowel movement." When asked about death, Alinsky replied: "They'll send me to hell -and I'll organize...
...modern films are "cinematic" enough for Hitchcock. "What do you see now?" he asks. "Photographs of people talking, which is only an extension of the theater. Or car chases, which are just movement. Pure cinema is the assembly of pieces of film that when put together create an idea in the mind of the audience. And out of that idea comes an emotion...