Word: purist
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...often hear directors telling you to stay away from their pictures. But Jackson is the definition of a purist. For him, The Two Towers is not a sequel to The Fellowship of the Ring; it's simply the three-hour second act of an epic nine-hour trilogy called Lord of the Rings. The complete dvd should be available...
...purist, the array of options at Dado are few, but well-chosen. Song says that many patrons who come in asking for green tea are befuddled by Dado’s four premium options: Japanese Green, Korean Green, Oolong Green and Oolong Green with Ginseng. A sit-‘n’-stay pot costs $3, slightly more than Tealuxe’s personal pot, but the high quality makes an extra dime worthwhile. If you come with friends, they’ll each have to pay $1.75 to share the pot (a group of three would...
...voice in international affairs. Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, 33, tamed the budget. Their achievements, says Sichrovsky, made Haider restless and resentful. He sought support in unlikely places, visiting Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. He also rallied hard-liners within his party to press for purist policies, from opposition to E.U. enlargement to insistence on tax cuts. It was this last drive, in the face of efforts by his own ministers to raise money for catastrophic flood damage, that finally forced Riess-Passer, Grasser and other Freedomite officials to quit. Haider has often spoken of forming...
...what is becoming a political war over the economy, Bush's army is filled with pacifists. His chief economist, Larry Lindsey, is a laissez-faire purist who views most government regulation of the marketplace as futile, even harmful. Bush's Veep is mute in public and argues vehemently inside the White House against any overreaction to the recent series of corporate scandals. The Secretary of the Treasury, the gaffe-a-minute Paul O'Neill, was off in Ukraine last week. No matter. Wall Street has not found any solace in O'Neill, a former CEO without a gut feel...
...crowd went on to watch the Crimson lose in extra innings, which may partially explain why the musical experiment ended after one game. But the day the music died was probably the doing of Harvard Coach Joe Walsh, baseball purist...