Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-velocity dollars. The money remains the same, as Gertrude Stein put it, but the pockets change. Faster than you can say otorhinolaryngologist. According to some estimates, a dollar spent at a convention is respent locally five times over the subsequent two weeks. Better yet, convention spending is pure gravy for the host city. "Conventions don't pollute or put any burden on municipal services," says Frank Sain, president of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. Adds Hartford, Conn.'s Convention and Visitors Bureau Chairman David Heinl: "A convention is like a plane flying over and dropping money into...
...fragrances to match. "As we move from the '70s into the '80s, there is a general shift from feminist to feminine," says Frederick Scott, vice president of Elizabeth Arden. Marilyn Miglin, owner of a cosmetics salon on Chicago's Gold Coast, agrees: "The trend now is switching back to pure glamour." Which does not necessarily mean that the natural look and the life-style it suggests are out: happily for cosmetics sales, both it and smoky mystery can live in peaceful coexistence. One adman puts the point pithily: "Nobody is giving up sex for jogging. People like to do both...
...Namo," I cried, as he rejected a sweater of pure Scottish wool for $6.98, "you're crazy. You can never do as well as you hope to. You've got to settle. You've got to take what's here...
...Gras painted on both sides. I got $1.50 athletic shirts that had been made up for teams that never claimed them, and bore obscure and worthless insignia. I got jackets in styles that were so passe they were almost chic again. And on my way out I got that pure-wool sweater for $6.98, in quiet tribute to a dream deferred...
These qualities that make Mozart so universally appealing are also responsible for his difficulty to perform. Happily, though, David Sogg is an extraordinarily gifted musician. His tone is clear and pure, his technique marvelous. Few regard the bassoon as an exceptionally agile instrument, but Sogg demonstrated that it can be precisely that. The rapid passagework and the herioc leaps between the uppermost and lowermost registers were rendered with astounding lucidity. More importantly, his fine sense for the subtle lyricism of Mozart was obvious, especially in the second movement, and throughout the piece he allowed the music to express itself with...