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...life or somebody you know or whatever, because that's all they could do, if they could even do that. This is no criticism at all. It's just different kinds of minds. Sure it's based on some things I saw and knew, but other things are just pure fiction...
...scientists are beginning to quietly raise the possibility of cooling the planet's fever directly through geoengineering. The principle behind it is straightforward - compensate for an intensified greenhouse effect by reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth - but the techniques seem like pure science fiction. Just a few: using orbital mirrors to bounce sunlight back into space, fertilizing the oceans with iron to amplify their ability to absorb carbon and even painting roofs white to increase solar reflection...
...rising costs of oil has consequences fo the food industry: it’s more expensive to plant, harvest, ship, cook and heat facilities. Populations in countries like India and China are becoming wealthier and eating more meat. Since animals are higher on the food chain, it takes more pure vegetation to yield the same number of calories in meat-form than it would by consuming the plants themselves. This puts a strain on the global demand for plant matter. But far and away, the culprit for these soaring prices is corn. Last year, 20 percent of the crop...
...other hand, there's Rent Collection Courtyard. It's a replica of more than 100 life-size clay statues that were originally crafted in Shanghai in 1965 as pure Maoist agitprop, a tableau of peasants being abused by a greedy landlord and his thugs. In 1999 Cai had a team of artisans reproduce the ensemble for the Venice Biennale. Set in a new context, as they are again at the Guggenheim, the figures took on a new meaning. They became artifacts of a bygone communist order and the lost power of its coercive spectacles...
...press corps following Hillary Clinton through Texas arrived at a campaign event to find that the media facilities were located in a men's room. Literally. Urinals on the walls. It was a gesture so wildly over the top that it wasn't even politics any more - it was pure show business. After battling the media over the Flowers scandal, and the White House travel office firings, and the health care fiasco, and cattle futures, and the Lewinsky crisis and so on, backwards into Arkansas history and all the way up to the rise of Barack Obama, the the Clintons...