Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Bustos Domecq does not exist, Argentine Authors Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares had to invent him. Why? Because Domecq is the pure incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense. This inept critic is a figure of Chaplinesque pathos: a tastemaker totally lacking in taste, a perpetual target of the avant-garde's custard pies...
...pure edge...
WORKING WITH no more pure vocal equipment than Dylan, she digs deep into her Pitman, New Jersey, garbage-cans-crashing-in-the-morning voice to come up with some sultry Piaf and sneering Jagger and belts it out with a kind of controlled epileptic frenzy. Gangfight scuzz. What's not so simple and brutal are the words. She is a poet and her rock and roll is all based on her poetry. A cultural groupie, it is clear that she has swallowed a lot of influences to have borne the devil child of her work. An article in Rolling Stone...
...device capable of generating an intense narrow beam of light that, for all practical purposes, did not diverge. Miniaturized lasers make it possible to couple powerful light beams accurately with hair-fine glass fibers. Another was the perfection, by Corning Glass Works, of a fiber of glass so pure that it could transmit light long distances. The third accomplishment was the devising, by engineers at Bell Labs and elsewhere, of methods of integrating fiber optics into modern telephone systems...
Three students lean over the center table where Nat Howard is writing his AM 110 assignment. The talk turns to Star Trek, the computer game often played to relieve the drudgery of long homework assignments. "Star Trek is pure escape," says one envious thesis writer...