Word: pureed
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Best Female Actor: Recipients are always the hardest to find, and with good reason: most of the roles Hollywood writes for women are pure trash. This year, however, there was a great performance in a most unlikely place. Julianne Moore, playing the motherly porn star of Boogie Nights, blew the lid off her role...
Kristen Boike could spell Kowal next year. Before ankle surgery ended her season, Carrie Larkworthy brought back memories of a young Jessica Gelman '97, Harvard's all-time assists leader. And Jill Zitnik might be the best pure shooting talent Harvard has seen since Erin Maher `93-Zitnik converted 11 of 14 three-pointers for a .786 percentage from down-town...
...type of kid that takes pitches, hits behinds runners," Walsh said. "You need a Hal Carey in your lineup. He's a pure team ballplayer. Because of his ability to use the Yard, to hit to all fields, Hal's the kind of guy who can hit big-time pitching...
...contrast to Lin as he leaned and swayed with his violin, and the stage seemed a kinesthetic blur of motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases. He dared the orchestra to return after the end of his virtuosic turn with cleanly executed runs of eighth notes, and the first movement ended shortly thereafter...
Maya Angelou has written that "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived / But, if faced with courage, need not be lived again." In terms of pure, unflinching courage, the Founding Fathers' "Liberty and Union Now and Forever" could not hold a candle to the muscular, subversive shock of one woman's "They shoot the white girl first." A roomful of listeners paid tribute last Friday night to a great artist, whose wizardly deployment of language continues to offer us hope that history may be, or maybe has already been, redeemed...