Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of self-effacing work that often, unfairly, gets overlooked in the movies. That is especially so when paired with a performance like Matt Dillon's as Tex. He's the kind of youngster who blends the antic and the stormy and makes it come out pure lopsided charm. No one has more accurately captured the mercurial quality of adolescence than he has, with anger, rebelliousness, gallantry, goofiness all tumbled together to create a confused, wholly believable vulnerability. When an assistant principal suspends him for loading the typing class's machines with explosive caps, we understand...
...goods goes to market these days identified either directly or by insinuation as natural, or as nature's, or as conducive to naturalness. Bloomingdale's, that barometer of with-itness, features jeans made of "natural stonewashed denim." Golden Key Creations of Fort Worth urges customers: "Be pure, natural, beautiful with Vitamin E cream!" Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has launched a new line of "all natural" dog food, which is the regular line bereft of additives, and Weleda, Inc., of Spring Valley, N.Y., sells "an all-natural, non-aerosol spray deodorant." Bootstrap Press of Glendale, Calif., offers...
...ripe corn, everything seems plainly abundant. The sunny September sky is as wide and weightless as the fields' earthen smells are dark and sweet. Bugs buzz in and out of earshot and the perfectly golden stalks rustle in the breezes, but the quiet, like everything else, still seems pure and plentiful...
Such greasepaint and graven images are verboten in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's temple of the pure genius: "However much we search the reservoir of our imagination for an image whereby Mozart became real to us, we find it, strangely enough, only in the reports of his eccentricities. It is easier to visualize him making faces than walking in the door. I think only someone with no imagination can imagine him." One would like to read this as an equivalent to Mozart's A Musical Joke or dialogue from the theater of the absurd. In fact, the German-born author...
Considerable debate also persists as to precisely what the SAT measures. If the exam is a pure test of general intellectual aptitude, as the College Board contends, then no special acquired knowledge should help raise scores. Yet in recent years students across the country have been paying hundreds of dollars to take special SAT prep courses. Acting on the evidence that students can study their way to higher scores, the National Association of Secondary School Principals announced this fall that it would publish SAT teaching materials in an effort to make the advantage available to all public school students. Could...