Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difference between Detroit and Boston--where yearly playoff drives always seem more exhilarating and pure--are the sheer numbers. In the last decade Boston's four major teams have snagged 25 playoff spots. Detroiters, in the same time, have enjoyed a meager six, with no team advancing in post-season play past the second round...
...live summary of their 1981 American tour. And that's something of a shame, because the Stones played plenty of true golden oldies while travelling the U.S. last summer and fall. They could have done a great service to rock and roll by recording only those tunes as a pure tribute to their own roots. As it is, the two best cuts on the return--Eddie Cochran's "Twenty-Flight Rock" and Smokey Robinson's "Goin to a Go-Go"--are both new additions to the Stones vast library of cover versions...
...there are novelty seekers whose work resembles sculpture more than furniture. Leading them is Vladimir Kagan, 55, many of whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
...controversy now swirling about the Garden Court might easily be one of the screenplays hatched within its walls years ago. The list of characters is pure Hollywood. C-D Investment Co., a huge real estate developer, attempted to demolish the Garden Court without a city permit last year because, as a C-D employee explained to the city council, "she was a beautiful old lady, but now she's gone. Someone has to pull the plug...
...wants to save and saves him. It is a sovereignty of grace, a sovereignty very much tempered by love, unconditional love." Calvinism, as practiced by its originator in Geneva, was the "preeminent social religion, and I've become more socially conscious from my reading of Calvin," he insists. "Pure social action is useful, and it gets a lot done. But without religion, speaking in eternal or ultimate terms, it will prove fruitless. Because the world is at last...