Word: pureed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second Messiah in Korea. When the Chinese pushed the U.N. troops out of North Korea in 1950, Moon fled to the south and later started a church in Seoul. In those days, say early members of the sect, ritual sex characterized the Moon communes. Since Moon was a pure man, sex with him ("blood cleansing") was supposed to purify both body and soul, and marriages of other cultists were in fact invalid until the wives slept with Moon. As the cult became bigger, the blood-cleansing rites were abandoned, but today Moon arranges his disciples' marriages, and after...
...must keep yourselves pure. If you may have to be stained in some way or another, it is better for you to kill yourselves than to remain alive...
...thus is one up on New York. But it is not quite that simple. Simon has not succumbed to California; he has just borrowed it. He asks: "How can I be a turncoat when everything about me-all the baggage I've accumulated since my birth-is pure New York?" In Manhattan, Simon lived in a comfortable East Side townhouse. Now he has a massive electronic gate blocking the entrance to the ten-room house, gardens and pool that he shares with his second wife, Actress Marsha Mason, and his two daughters, Ellen, 19, and Nancy, 13. He gets...
...scene hardly befitted the pure white Georgia marble and serene proportions of the U.S. House of Representatives' Rayburn Office Building. There in a darkened hearing room last week, the House Subcommittee on Communications, along with assorted other members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission, sat looking at two flickering TV screens. They were watching four male strippers, dressed only in top hats and white ties, undulate to a bump-and-grind version of Baby Face. Also on the program were Annie ("I've tried them all") Sprinkle's consumer guide to sex toys readily available from...
...prime characteristic of the pure mathematician is an inability to speak in language that is intelligible to the layman. It follows that any novelist with a 14-year-old mathematical genius as his hero is probably looking for trouble. Ratner's Star, Author Don DeLillo's fourth book, has just such a hero-Billy Twillig-and its problems begin right there. Although Billy has won the only Nobel Prize ever awarded in his field, neither he nor DeLillo can explain much about the nature of "zorgs," Twillig's epochal discovery. Aside from his ineffable talent, Billy...