Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bayadére, a much beloved work in the Soviet Union, is virtually unknown here, except for a section called "Kingdom of the Shades," which is a distillation of Marius Petipa's pure classicism. The film The Turning Point made beautiful use of its opening sequence, in which the corps de ballet slowly descends a ramp, all the dancers doing the same graceful movement, based on an arabesque, so that the audience sees it from every angle and at the same time as a single image. The stage becomes a vision of harmony, symmetry and peace...
...Magic," said Harry Blackstone, the great magician, is "nothing but pure psychology - applied in the right place." That is probably as succinct a definition of the illusionist's art as anyone will ever come up with. What Blackstone discovered was not that audiences can be fooled. It was rather that they long to be fooled and are willing accomplices along...
Some regions, like Greece's Saronic Gulf and the northern part of the Adriatic, were found to be hazardous, but others turned out to be relatively pure. The biggest polluters, not surprisingly, are France, Italy and Spain. Thus they will have to bear the biggest part of the cost of the more than $10 billion program. The proposed treaty includes a blacklist of banned substances (for example, mercury, cadmium, radioactive materials) and a gray list of those that will be tolerated in specified quantities. All factories and sewage systems will be required to install antipollution devices, and new installations...
Despite the soothing words from the White House, Detroit has many difficult miles to go before next fall, when new lines of American cars that can compete with the Japanese arrive at dealer showrooms. Said Iacocca last week: "The next six months to a year are going to be pure hell...
...spoke of melancholy, of the "blues." But it also enabled Picasso, as the pervasive brown-gray monochrome of analytical cubism later would in a different way, to take color out of his work, so that he could make a compromise between decorative flatness and sculptural volume in terms of pure tone...