Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are loaded with color, blaring with the kind of greedy, apoplectic vitality. On first sight, they look as though a squad of glue-snorting graffitists had been let loose with crayons, spray cans and party glitter in a constructivist warehouse. Surfaces that Stella would once have left pure and flat are loaded with rich, scribbled color. The shapes slice and crash, in and out, mocking the conventions of flatness and integrity of the picture plane...
...central character, Freed, is enigmatic to a fault. McIntyre expresses nearly every emotion except pure elation by contorting his face as he exhales his cigarette smoke. To exhibit elation he does not exhale the smoke at all. Only by careful attention to this detail can one discern any emotion in the man's character...
...know something about his childhood and psychological background; perhaps it would give us a clue as to why he unleashes so much fury on his characters. He's so perverse and sadistic that he really is endearing--he probably sleeps on a rack. The Fury is a startlingly pure film: 100 per cent...
...pure political theater, set in Peking's cavernous Great Hall of the People. All the votes were unanimous, all the speakers loudly applauded by the 3,497 delegates. The script for last week's National People's Congress, the body that theoretically serves as China's parliament, came courtesy of the all-powerful Communist Party Central Committee. The point the Central Committee wished to drive home: 18 months after Mao's death and the subsequent arrest of the radical Gang of Four. China's leadership has consolidated, and seeks, under "the great banner...
...find a dialectic in Lady Be Good--an unresolved dialectic. On one side stands the dumb dialogue, technical weakness and a lackluster beginning. On the other: great music, strong voices and peppy dancing. You just can't dive too deeply in the waters of this show. It's very pure, very shallow musical comedy...