Word: purist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telling the truth when I say I was not pleased that the off-yellow banana I bought last week bore a bright yellow sticker bearing the ABC logo along with the ostensibly ironic legend TV. ZERO CALORIES. I'm no food purist, and I know bananas are supposed to have stickers. But they're supposed to say chiquita, and that makes sense. Chiquita produces bananas. ABC produces the pasty mashed potato that is Dharma & Greg...
...first joined. We went down to L.A. and played at this club called Palomino, we opened for them, and that was the first band I remember seeing, other than us, that was playing swing. And even back then they were really into the look, and being more of a "purist" swing kind of sound. I think they're great, and their guitarist is the real virtuoso of the new swing scene. We've also done shows with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Indigo Swing...
Maybe you're more of a purist. Maybe the combination Adam Sandler, football, and potty humor just doesn't do anything for you. In that case, you might want to pass on the Waterboy and spend $7.75 on a ticket for the opening of The Wizard of Oz, digitally remastered in all its emerald glory.Check your local listings for theaters and showtimes...
...arrangement with existing cellular dealers turns out to be a serendipitous marriage of marketing and technology. Without resellers, customers would be few, and without cell technology, service would be limited. At first Iridium planned a purist, sky-to-ground approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network middlemen. But that wasn't very feasible in the glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office...
QUINCY JONES (1933- ) Two months before Miles Davis' jazz-rock hybrid Bitches Brew came out in 1969, Jones released Walking in Space, a jazz-R.-and-B.-pop Fusion album that let air into the narrow confines of purist jazz. Jones would drift farther from his jazz roots, eventually producing Michael Jackson's Thriller album, but Walking in Space helped open the door to the electric-jazz...