Word: purist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dream-like atmosphere of madness does, in fact, seep into most of the scenes of the film because of its unusual photographic technique. The camera seldom remains still for more than a moment before tilting upward to some tricky angle or plunging in for a close-up shot. A purist might well object that Strindbergh, a believer in the strictly life-like, naturalistic technique during the period in which he produced Miss Julie, would not have tolerated such an approach to his play. In the light of contemporary tastes, however, the film adaptation is still an improvement over the play...
...Chef Dione Lucas remains a purist. She calmly refuses the customary TV gimmicks, chats informally with a sprinkling of wit and common sense as she displays her skill with a skillet. Last week she demonstrated paupiettes de veau Fontage and the unexpurgated chicken marengo (two small chickens are browned in sweet butter; a hen lobster is sautéed, then shelled; chickens and lobster are flamed in cognac, sprinkled with an aromatic sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shallots, tarragon and dry vermouth, garnished with fried eggs on croutons and slices of truffles). Chef Lucas makes it look easy, but any housewife...
Farjeon took his purist's text from the First Folio (1623) and Quarto editions, made his bow to modernizing scholars by offering the best of their changes in the page margins. For the average reader, there was one catch. Farjeon's Nonesuch Shakespeare came in seven volumes at $200 a set, and only 1,600 sets were printed. They have long since become collectors' items. Now the Nonesuch is back in a new, beautifully bound and printed edition, this time not limited, and priced at a more reasonable $35. The New Nonesuch keeps Farjeon's text...
Dominguin believes that bullfighting is neither a sport nor a business, but an art. He despises most of his fellow bullfighters, whom he regards as "commercial." Consequently, he is unpopular with them. He thinks of himself as a purist, an upholder of the classical style, as opposed to the current fashion which measures a bullfighter by bravery alone...
...Europeans liked the company, the dancers returned the feeling with interest. Offstage they enthusiastically pursued the gourmet trail, gawked at the sights, suffered the usual tourist complaints (sniffles, upset stomachs). They all put on some weight, and thereby drew a rebuke from Purist Balanchine: "Some of them have become so fat it is difficult to look at them...