Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 'pure deal'?" jokes William Safire, author of The New Language of Politics. Seriously, Safire claims, his research shows that the most prominent words so far in the Carter Administration are human rights. But even though they have lineage back to Tom Paine's The Rights of Man, they do not make a political label...
Died. Eliot F. Noyes, 66, tastemaking industrial designer, architect, artist and wholesale shaper of corporate images and buildings (IBM world's fair pavilions, Mobil's cylindrical gas pumps), whose abiding reverence was for pure functionalism and uncluttered, recognizable packaging ("Familiarity breeds acceptance," he once quipped); of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn...
Motherwell's work, as he never tires of repeating, is an art of subjects. His paintings come out of life and feed back into it; in no sense are they pure abstractions. He has always had a liking for "natural" colors, ones that look as though they have been extracted directly from the world's surface: ocher, black, white and the exquisite range of blues, "Motherwell blue," as promptly identifiable as Braque brown or Matisse pink. "If there is a blue that I might call mine," says Motherwell, "it is simply a blue that feels warm, something that...
SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION. Under recent court interpretations of the 1970 act, the EPA must not only "protect and enhance" the nation's air but take active steps to prevent "significant deterioration" where air is still relatively pure. Environmentalists see these steps as safeguards against further despoliation by belching factories and power plants. But industry is sure that they will, as a Chamber of Commerce spokesman says, only "mandate undeveloped areas into eternal poverty." The House version would leave enforcement to the jurisdiction of the states and allow up to 18 days a year of pollution in those areas. By contrast...
...Show Nothing"). Dean's brother Paul, who owned a looping curveball and the nickname Daffy, met the press later. Yes, his brother was conscious as they carted him off the field, Daffy replied; he was talking the whole time. But what did he say? And Daffy shot back with pure Arkansas honesty, "He didn't say nothing. He was just talking...