Word: purees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter, the Rocky films, Flashdance has made it big by taking experiences of black youths and playing them in whiteface. The Flashdancers' moves can be seen any week on Soul Train, or on any inner-city street corner. But unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz. This "Pittsburgh" has steel mills that shimmer in telephoto twilight. The sidewalks are clean as the Lido beach-must be where all the ironworkers got those golden tans. In a neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show that could exist only...
...such revolutionary works as Concerto Barocco (1941) and The Four Temperaments (1946), Balanchine reveled in the joy of pure movement, unencumbered by sets, costumes or plot. "Swan Lake is a bore," he declared. For Balanchine, dance was really about motion, not the Wilis; the choreographer's intent, he felt, should be made explicit without panoply or program notes. "The curtain should just go up," he said, "and if the spectators understand what's going on, it's good...
...those persons who weren't directly involved or don't descend from persons who were involved in slavery and racial segregation, shouldn't they also be excluded from the more benign developments in which they weren't involved? I wonder if they would like to be excluded from the pure food laws, the child labor laws, the public schools, collective bargaining. Social Security, etc.? David L. Evans Evans is Harvard's Senior Admissions Officer...
...were guests at a dinner with local businessmen. The next day it was on to the steamy coast along the Bay of Campeche to tour the awesome La Cangrejera petrochemical complex at Coatzacoalcos. Says Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis, who accompanied the Newstour: "I assumed nothing could touch the pure muscle of the refineries along the Houston Ship Channel, but the La Cangrejera complex dwarfs any single facility in Houston. And it isn't even the largest oil facility in Mexico." In Coatzacoalcos, the group met with Mario Ramon Beteta, the new director-general of Pemex, the state...
Ruben Berrios-Martinez, the president of the independence party, said that the idea of the U.S. giving Puerto Rico" any kind of self-determination is pure hypocrisy as long as there is colonialism...