Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walls of Ravenna and points east, is propaganda; there could have been no better medium than mosaic for impressing on subjects' minds the idea of a continuity between the courts of heaven and those of earth. The rigid bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit. But, as in the fearsome tapestry of St. Theodore, they were also meant to remind the faithful that Big Brother was watching, that the eye of the state found its model in the all-seeing eye of God. With its Christs enthroned as emperors and its emperors carrying the victorious...
...find cooking absolutely relaxing, totally absorbing and also extremely satisfying." Even some of the most ambitious cooks manage to assemble banquets without nerves. Ambrose Flaherty, 46, an advertising salesman for the Boston Globe, likes to prepare huge, rich meals for his family and friends. But, he maintains, "it's pure recreation. It's a great outlet for my energy and, besides, we're very gregarious." One recent feast for ten chez Flaherty featured roast suckling pig, stuffed goose, boiled lobsters, marinated mushrooms and Karen Flaherty's raspberry bombe and walnut cake...
THIS IS A COMEDY, with a happy ending snatched out of the fire at the last moment. Just as the young, pure Otelia is about to die for love of Martim, he returns for the wedding, and they appear to live happily ever after. It may well be that such completely happy endings, unmarred by worldly considerations, are possible only in mythical worlds...
...doesn't really work. Camus's viewpoint is a little too hard to see; as a result, it is largely unconvincing. It is hard to imagine an American audience giving itself up to pure enjoyment of the scenery and the gaiety. Bahia is an idyllic world, where even whores can demand the right to love; it is not a world that reflects our own experience, and it is difficult to take it all seriously. Bahia is gay, joyous, beautiful, but it is not believable. And in the end, it isn't really satisfying, either...
...cuts where Scaggs hangs back and plays safe are not particularly outstanding. "A Clue" is pretty and lyrical and at the same time thoughtful and boring; the crashing of cymbals in "We're Waiting" is meaningless and facile; "Tomorrow Never Came" is pure filler. Half of the songs on the album just don't work, and are failures made all the more disappointing by the excellence of the other half of the album. Scaggs may have cut his own throat on this record by not sustaining high standards the whole way through, but if his fans stick with him through...