Word: purely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comedies about love, sex and marriage always contain a slight element of the sadistic. What is often pure misery for the participants is pure merriment for the spectator. Watching other people go through hell seems to be fun. At least it is in Lovers and Other Strangers, a sort of diminutive Plaza Suite that consists of four diverting playlets not overly witty or wise but foaming with gentle laughter...
...interested to note that during the present soul-searching, a number of other publications have reached the same conclusion. News week, for example, in a thoughtful article entitled "Is the Press Biased?" observes: "Newsmen should be willing to dismiss the illusion that there is such a thing as 'pure objectivity' in reporting." In support of which the magazine quotes Bill Moyers to the effect that "of all the myths of journalism, objectivity is the greatest." Just...
...presidential campaign ever quite achieves the ideal of a pure exercise in national enlightenment. Still, 1968's contest thus far falls alarmingly short of the ideal. By design or sheer ineptitude, the issues of Viet Nam, urban reconstruction and racial reconciliation are being clouded rather than clarified. The times call for a high order of statesmanship; yet Nixon comes on like an artful dodger and Humphrey like an artless bungler. Whether the two can shake off those images in the seven weeks before Election Day is becoming the key question of a disappointing campaign...
...first inning, but the Tigers tied it up, went ahead 4-2 in the second. In the third, with two men on base and no one out, Baltimore's Boog Powell smashed a line drive straight at Denny. It might have put the Orioles ahead. Instead, in pure self-defense, Denny caught the ball and turned a sure hit into the beginning of a triple play...
...inherits a pittance and decides that it is time to fall in love. He picks Maria, a pretty, aloof-looking virgin. She turns out to be as eager to fall in love as he is, but she is far more direct and decisive. Antonio is troubled: How could the pure madonna of his fantasy tolerate his touching her? He is still trying to come to terms with this conundrum when Maria's rich parents callously separate the lovers. Antonio suffers extravagantly, even as he falls into the arms of the first promiscuous girl he meets...