Search Details

Word: pureed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Just Want to Have Something to Do", which opens the flip side of Road, take the band right back to their roots. It is pure punk, with a chorus that catches the essence of punk philosophy...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: No Sleeping Pill | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...Great Train Robbery is one of the most cynical "pure escapist" movies ever made. Crichton hasn't even bothered to conceal his disgust for his lifeless hackwork. He crams his screenplay with adventure-movie cliches, but he doesn't poke fun at them; he piles them on as if to show how much he can get away with. Movies like this aren't very entertaining if they're not stylish or suspenseful; Crichton's stupid, stilted dialogue precludes style; the Mission: Impossible predictability, sluggish editing, and surprising number of loose ends strangle suspense. Characters inexplicably appear and disappear--dragged...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Nonelectric Trains | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

...goals and 121 assists-a remarkable 212 total points-in just 47 games. Trottier, a relentless playmaker who has scored 34 goals and shoved the puck to teammates for another 45 points in assists, is battling Montreal's stylish Guy Lafleur for the scoring lead. Bossy, a pure shooter with lightning hands, leads the league in goals with 38. Hovering in the background (19 goals and 45 assists) is Gillies, and at 6 ft., 3 in., 224 lbs., he looms large indeed to harried defenders. Gillies comes up with the puck the direct way: he sweeps the boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Power Players | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...lovers' oneupmanship. Yet this actress is not merely another talented comedienne: she also has the voluptuous figure and classic features of an oldtime movie star. When she strips down to black silk undies and slithers under the sheets with Connery, the audience gets a dizzying whiff of pure sex worthy of Loren or Monroe. It is no wonder that Director Michael Crichton's camera all but jumps into bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lady Is a Thief | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...explosion of 250 milliliters of pure nitroglycerine "would leave a medium-sized room in an absolute shambles," and could have endangered students taking exams in the adjoining lecture halls, George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and one of the developers of the atomic bomb detanator says...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: You Bombed Your Exam? | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next