Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman looked at me straight on, but her whole attitude did not include me in the circle of her friends as she had included Nick. He was now deeply involved in a conversation with her younger companion, a pure country sapling of a girl who spoke in an uncut twang and who retreated into a scared doe shyness as she smiled at the music. The woman said she drove trucks every now and then, when she wasn't working at a local truck stop...
...operating instructions are in English, even for a shoeshine boy or a waitress who would coax a few extra centavos out of the gringo tourists. Some of this cultural influence is due a filtering down of the upper-class aping of everything North American: much of it, however, is pure necessity in a society shaped and dominated largely from without...
...follower. The style of Die Tote Stadt is a lush, clamorous, occasionally schmaltzy orchestral sonorama that lies somewhere between Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, with special added effects from Puccini, Debussy, Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov. The best of its vocal moments, like the taunting Marietta's Lied, sound like pure Franz Lehár, the master of popular Viennese operetta...
...through the watchers. "A widow for the second time," whispered one old woman in a black shawl. A Mona Lisa smile crept briefly across Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' face, or perhaps it was simply an involuntary grimace at a world forever watching. Behind the dark sunglasses, her look was pure enigma...
...painting life began in the 1860s and spanned almost 70 years, was as fundamental to 20th century art as Cézanne. Bonnard, Pollock and Rothko, not to mention every color-field painter who came out of an art school, lie cradled in Monet's woven strands of pure color. Consequently the Art Institute of Chicago's Monet retrospective of more than 120 paintings, which opened last week, is an event of real importance: the man has never been better represented...