Word: pureed
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McCarthy's collection of Northcliffe Lectures from University College in London, can be read in two ways. One is as pure literary criticism, as a reinterpretation of Stendhal and Balzac. She writes with assurance and insight of the 19th century novel, of George Eliot's "homely English novel," of the literary use of Napoleon as the personification of genius, of Les Miserables and Jean Valjean's conscience as a dialogue. Her writing is spirited but there are grounds for disagreement, such as her contention that the fiction of Conrad "went so far in' the direction of brevity and concentration that...
Hell is the place we have been, though the Iranian version was pure Sartre; no air and no exit. Yet the fact is that the U.S. lost a great deal because of the hostage crisis. It lost eight men, and that was the worst. It also showed itself and the rest of the world that its defense and foreign policies could be confounded by a street gang. It demonstrated that it was willing to work a deal with kidnapers; that its military and covert forces were faulty and impotent; that its political intelligence was porous. Beyond these, it lost clarity...
Napoleon-like all the great silent epics-is a triumph of pure cinematic style over conventional expectations. There is no "characterization" in the usual sense, though in the title role Albert Dieudonné gives a great silent performance of looks, gestures and poses. Mostly, however, people are used as unparticularized symbols. Nor are there many dramatically pointed scenes, only groupings in which it is up to cameraman, editor and director to ferret out (and impose) meaning-to "photograph thought," in Griffith's phrase...
...American Repertory Theater with a new play by British playwright Charles Wood about the bumbling attempts of an Anglo-American team to shoot a film in Ireland about the American Revolution for the celebration of the American Bicentenial. It's less confusing than it sounds--Has "Washington" Legs? is pure farce with a dark side beneath, but it's too freewheeling to say anything well. The result is a two-hour burlesque show with some long gaps in between moments of high comedy...
When the umpire called the play at home, Lynn jumped in the air with an exuberant wave of his arm, not so much in triumph as in pure joy. Fred Lynn was having...