Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pure soap opera, and India's most accomplished tearjerker was relishing her leading role. After Indira Gandhi's colleagues in the 542-member lower house of the Indian Parliament wound up a rancorous two-week debate by voting overwhelmingly to expel her and send her to jail for contempt, the graying former Prime Minister, 61, declared that "I would rather be arrested here and now and not in the dead of night at my house." Then she clambered onto a table and waited for the police. Before they led Mrs. Gandhi off to Delhi's Tihar jail...
...told in a few words: "He loved me. I loved Him ... Then He stopped loving me and I suffered." Her own novels proved otherwise. Passion, in Colette's experience, dominated life, and she made her theme the pursuit of love, the treacherous ambiguities of sex. The Pure and the Impure, Cheri and The Ripening Seed pulse with an intensity unknown in French literature since Flaubert's letters to Louise Colet or Swann's obsession with Odette in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...
...perception was that puppets could throw away the Punch and Judy box that had confined them for centuries and let the television set be their stage. The camera demanded the use of closeups, and abruptly the old single-expression puppet was obsolete. The Muppets were new, and they were pure television creatures. Today they are the stars of Sesame Street, as well as of Henson's global hit The Muppet Show...
...stars are the animals: Kermit, the pure and reasonable frog; the ineffable Miss Piggy, every circumferential inch a lady; Rowlf the Dog, a philosophical pianist; Fozzie Bear, the can't-stand-up comic; and The Great Gonzo, the magnificently inferior creature whose inventors insist, despite damning evidence, that he is not a turkey. Monsters are the remaining important category of beings: such enormities as Sweetums, who is about 9 ft. tall and covered with a three-day growth of brownish shag, and Thog, who is a good deal bigger and still growing, lend chaos to the goings...
...Herbert von Karajan conductor, Angel; 2 LPs). With Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...