Word: purely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...receiving our inevitable B-plusses, we at Dartboard will be glad to take in the much-needed Woody Allen double feature at the Science Center this coming Saturday night. For througout this past week of cramming, caffeine and furious paper-writing, Dartboard hasn't gotten its share of pure, cold neurosis...
...only charmed teams can win ugly and make it look as inspiring as the Crimson did on Saturday afternoon. With five-and-a-half minutes left in a chilly, soggy affair with the Princeton Tigers, sophomore kicker Mike Giampaolo took ugliness and turned it into pure beauty...
...monarch" can conjure up nightmares of King George III, symbolizing British control over American colonies in the 18th century. Or perhaps we start thinking of the sad genetic malfunctions which run through royal families that are too inbred, a result, ironically, of their hopes to keep their family bloodlines pure. The fact that Queen Victoria passed along her mutated gene for hemophilia to several different European royal families comes up in one biology textbook after another...
Forget the music. The Rolling Stones concert at Foxboro Stadium wasn't so much a performance of music as it was a performance of performance. The Stones, ever the embodiment of good ol' pure, simple rock and roll, were the perpetrators of one of the most extravagant spectacles imaginable. They surfed through the concert on the crest of this dynamic--the simple versus the extravagant, the simple made extravagant, an interplay which in retrospect was the ideal way to showcase one of music's most long-beloved and constant phenomena...
...completely lit up the sky. The encore brought both the simply classic and the fantastic to a maximum. While the group played "Brown Sugar," one of their most beloved singles, the air filled with gigantic geysers of confetti, which completely blanketed the stadium. Throughout all of this, the simple, pure rock and roll that is the Rolling Stones never seemed to be at odds with the lavishly flamboyant motif of the concert. It all worked. It all provided plenty of satisfaction