Word: pureness
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...onto the small, silver lump. At first nothing happened, the flame blazed down in a blue and orange column. Then, suddenly, the silver surface began to peel away and gold glittered underneath. More and more of the silver coating retreated under the blue flame until only a pebble of pure gold remained. Femmy cut the gas off and coughed, something catching at the back of her throat. She had heard that burning mercury was dangerous, but she didn't believe it. After all, another worker had mistakenly drunk from a bottle of pure quicksilver?and he was okay...
...long list of favorable reviews gathered on her website, SUSANNAH MCCORKLE included this one: "'She sings in tune.'--her dentist, New York City." This was pure Susannah, looking for the joke behind the self-seriousness, the pin in the balloon of pretension. Years before she was a performer, she was a writer (one early piece of fiction was included in Prize Stories 1975: The O. Henry Awards), and becoming a singer was, she once told me, merely the result of "thinking it was a really cool thing to do." Few of us will ever chase a dream so fruitfully...
Going on a book tour is pure glamour, right? Not so fast. For many authors, book tours are a blur of hotels and bookstores at warp speed. Maybe that's why literary America is loosening its tie and letting its hair down. Best-selling memoirist Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) is becoming famous for appearances that are close to performance art. At one point he brought two dermatologists on stage to explain itching and scratching...
...started sketching it out as a play, Little Murders, and it just took off. It was pure epiphany: a week before, I didn't know I could construct scenes, create characters in action with voices that pulled against each other, and make a social and political statement about something that was important to me. Writing on this rather grim theme, I was euphoric. The satirist's irony--the better I felt, the worse things...
...Dianne Reeves' summery I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me offers gentle warmth; and Cassandra Wilson's autumnal Sunny Side of the Street is laden with loss but colored with beautiful hues. Blanchard blows his way through these songs with charming, restrained invention and a pure, vivid tone...