Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instead, he is an antirationalist, a form-follows-intuition designer whose deft play (tricks of perspective, false facades) tends toward the baroque but whose work comes off as anything but fusty. He is drawn to elemental geometries -- cubes, cylinders -- and natural materials, but he seldom leaves them basic or pure. He pulls together polished granite with curved glass with concrete, and makes columns short and fat, as in his 1971 Sogo Bank building; in a 1974 country club in Oita and a library in Kitakyushu, he makes barrel vaults snake and turn like architecture squeezed from a toothpaste tube...
...Aida houses may be facile, yet they do delight: toy building blocks are a cheerful transcultural artifact, and the mock-haphazard assemblages are lively, seemingly half built or half demolished. The Toys R Us aspect seems American, but the unfinished quality is pure Japanese. Says Aida: "Fundamentally I find myself swinging back and forth between two basic lines of influence -- Japanese tradition and Western culture. I am attracted as much by Kandinsky, for instance, as I am by modern Japanese writers...
...French have always struggled to keep their language pure, but in recent years the effort has become a top national priority. The Paris government now boasts a Secretary of State for Francophone Affairs. The country also has what amounts to a language patrol. Since 1977 the General Association for the Users of the French Language has won modest civil-court damages from some 40 companies and other groups for violating a 1911 law that forbids the use of English words in the conduct of business when French equivalents exist. Among the offenders: Trans World Airlines, which had issued boarding passes...
...situation right," he would say later, in a statement that was both apologetic and defiant. "I was stubborn in my pursuit of a policy that went astray." It was a speech that satisfied neither friends nor enemies. But it was one that was inside the President as simple and pure as a diamond and had to come out, audience acceptance or not. "Well," he told TIME earlier in the day, his nose still scarred and red from his skin-cancer operation, "I'll be sitting at the same desk, so I can always duck...
...treason, not the passion, that has to carry the movie. Judged as a pure suspense movie, No Way Out doesn't rank up there with 39 Steps or Dr. No. It does toss in a clever conclusion--casting the rest of the plot in a more intriguing, although confusing, light--but no snappy ending can compensate for an hour's worth of mediocre machinations...