Word: pureness
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...have resulted in the avid manufacture of camp, so that in a world where things are born old, we can at least have some fun. One reason for the popularity of Young British Artists in the past couple of years is that they help us rethink our affection for pure camp by asking a simple but all-important question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate its own apolitical pathology of weirdness, like a wax museum, or is weirdness always a subversive comment on a world that is itself, a priori...
...certain when the idea of "pure cinema" first trickled its way I into my moviegoing life. Who knows what the term even means, as if certain images are fitter, more satisfying and more urgently needed on film than on any other medium, or as if celluloid can relate beauty better than anyone else. I'll be the first to admit that there is something a little preposterous about it; can anyone really imagine a "pure sculpture" or a "pure poem...
...population base, and thus the cash, to support utility infielders making $100 million a year. The minor leagues will flourish too, in such cities as Toronto and Seattle, where ancient ballparks like the Skydome and Safeco Field will allow fans to remember simpler times, when the game was pure and hitters actually had to run the bases, back before the advent of designated feet...
...cigarettes, hissed at us to be back to the set on time. Noah got up and approached guest Jonathan Alter, a former Crimson editor and current Newsweek correspondent. As Noah spoke, the rest of us surrounded him in a silent circle. But luckily, Alter took our silence as pure awe and invited us to follow him over to the Gore campaign party. Although none of us were enamored with the stoic VP, we decided that his shindig would be thoroughly more intriguing than trailing McCain to Nashua. Skating across the ice to the lovely Holiday Inn, we followed Alter...
However, on Saturday the Crimson got the victory that eluded them the night before as they visited Columbia and pounced the Lions, 37-6. In a meet of pure domination, Harvard's superiority included a technical fall, three consecutive pins, and two major decision defeats...