Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE FILM is the instrument of justice it is also the instrument of men's drives: so that the determination to reveal the truth is not a pure motive, but is qualified by hatred and revenge. Legal lynching, "the law that says if you kill somebody you gotta be killed," is no better than the extra-legal kind. Thus the tracks-in, which increase in number about the middle of the film, lose our complete acquiescence in moving forward...
Roger demurred. "Your honor," he said, "I'm not a bull." So did Roger's attorney, Genevieve Aiche, 27, a pretty redhead. "Permit me to be skeptical," she said. "Eighteen assaults in one hour, even perpetrated by two men in relay, seem to me to be pure myth. It would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous, and they were Kings of France. After all, where is the woman who, after 18 assaults, would have the effrontery to complain...
Blow-Up, that slick portrayal of swinging London, was pure frippery compared with such masterpieces as L'Avventura and La Notte. Zabriskie Point, his new film about America, lacks even the superficial vigor of Blow-Up. It is to be hoped that Antonioni never goes on location in Australia...
Outright deception is rare. Many commercials retreat into a world of pure fantasy, in which humor and Madison Avenue mythology explore hard-sell claims to product superiority. The agencies have created an unearthly band of mnemonic miracle-makers-a White Knight, a Green Phantom, Josephine the lady plumber, Mr. Clean the bacteriophobic eunuch, and the Man from Glad, who is gussied up in platinum hairdo and white trench coat. In one ad, a failing used-car salesman takes a dollop of Listerine mouthwash, and customers start buying without waiting for the sales pitch. In another commercial, a bespectacled, frumpish...
...interpreted as an apologia for the Silent Generation's chill neutralities. But George Orwell-another Third Journalist-would have understood that her commitment is a virtuous aversion to political language "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Like Orwell, Adler refuses the facile role of advocate or judge. In the trial of history she is simply a friend of the court. Luck and journalistic instinct informed her of tendencies just before they became movements. She was with Martin Luther King in Selma and Stokely Carmichael in Mississippi...