Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most sensible of these was the "physical culture watch"-a turnip-size timepiece whose dial showed what exercises should be performed and what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy's," said Bernarr. "Then Gimbels.") Most staggering of all, though never completed...
...half of Lux-inspired suggestions for tidying up the characters and the plot. In four days Faulkner was back with a script. Says Kuhl: "There were some wonderful lines in it, but they would have offended." After two more tries, Faulkner turned m a script that could be certified pure enough for TV. Kuhl is eager to do more Faulkner stories and even hopes the novelist can be tempted to write some originals. How did Faulkner himself like the TV version of The Brooch? Says Kuhl: "I talked to him right after the show, and he said he liked...
...Author Bruckberger finds another moral in Mary Magdalene's conversion-she also proved the hollowness of her Pharisee countrymen. "Simon the Pharisee believes himself 'pure,' and thereby he becomes a sinner, impenitent because his sin consists in believing that he is without sin. Mary Magdalene knows herself, recognizes herself, proclaims herself 'impure' and a sinner; this is why she attains the wellspring of all purity. In this humility and [in] this contrition is she justified...
...Pure Havana. In Portland, Ore., Thomas Crawford told police that two strangers had hypnotized him by blowing cigar smoke into his face, then got him to draw $1,100 from his bank account and give them the money...
...performance that even Toscanini has rarely equaled for fire and devotion, there was no single standout. But Marshall's soprano, as the highest solo voice, could be heard floating magnificently above even the massed ensemble. In the more subdued sections of Beethoven's Mass, her tone was pure and wellrounded, her florid passages had a liquid sound and her phrasing a natural warmth that her colleagues, for all their greater experience, never quite matched...