Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extreme. The frame is part of the work, and within it -- always a wide, heavily molded, dark construction, its inner edges toned so that a white glow seems to be emanating from the picture itself -- one catches a glimpse of, say, a broad horizon, a band of achingly pure and silent sky, the trunk of a pine. The frame becomes a prison for a sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more: acid rain has stripped the needles...
...such dark brooding is in order in the Soviet Union. Spies are good guys, pure and simple, as long as they are on the Soviet side. Even in czarist times, secret agents were regarded as legitimate and indispensable protectors of a sprawling empire that was surrounded by hostile forces and infested with political malcontents and agitators. Backward in so many other respects, Russia was precocious in developing a police apparatus. That institution was ready-made for the Bolsheviks, with their militant ideology and their conspiratorial, secretive methods. According to Marxism-Leninism, politics is a continuation of war by other means...
Kern's itch to change and perfect is the mark of a meticulous craftsman. It is genius, though, that etches his tunes in the memory. Composer Alec Wilder, in his 1972 study American Popular Song, singled out Kern for exemplifying "the pure, uncontrived melodic line more characteristically than any other writer of American theater music." To listen to a Kern tune like They Didn't Believe Me is to realize how elegantly it obeys the laws of melody and mathematics: each succeeding phrase is both surprising and inevitable. In that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from...
...other with passionate abandon on his last leave.' 'I don't think they took their clothes off, though,' Sandy said. 'Do you?' 'No. I can't see it,' said Jenny. 'I wouldn't like to have sexual intercourse,' Sandy said. 'Neither would I. I'm going to marry a pure person.' 'Have a toffee...
...despite the time she has spent helping others, Rosegrant shies away from images of pure and holy altruism. "I get really nervous talking about self sacrifice. Social work is probably the hardest thing I've ever done, but it was also incredibly rewarding." And she is skeptical that social work will continue to remain her primary concern in later life. Unlike PBH work, one has to hack through loads of red-tape in much social work, she says. Making changes through public policy or doing more social field study are more likely candidates for the future...