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Yablans scoffs at the notion that the heavy promotion might hurt Gatsby. "No matter what we do, the film will stand on its own merits," he says. "My only concern is not whether we've oversold it, but rather about the intellectual, purist approach the critics might take. I sense," he adds darkly, "that some of them have a real you-better-show-me attitude...
Bach. Listeners who favor the "purist" approach to Bach will do well to hear Lenora Stein's all-Bach program at Memorial Church. The Fisk organ is well-suited to such an enterprise...
...dispute is partly a division between young and old. "If I were 25, I would probably take a more purist position," says a Palestinian intellectual in Beirut, "but at 45 one finds other possibilities. The interim-state solution would bring new hope in one's own life time." Even the extremists realize that the people most directly concerned are those who live on the West Bank and those who have lived for up to 25 years in squalid refugee camps. These Palestinians, some 2,000,000 in all, may decide to bypass the commando organizations and accept the offer...
...resort campsites become ever more luxurious, lovers of the primitive still cling to what they consider genuine camping-backpacking through the woods, relying on trees, canvas and perhaps a lean-to for shelter. TIME's Boston correspondent Philip Taubman is one such purist. Last week he and his wife Felicity tromped the Long Trail in Vermont's Green Mountains, their enthusiasm only slightly dampened by a chilling rain and acres of mud. Herewith Taubman's defense of nature...
...colt was big, bright-eyed, barrel-chested. A picture horse. His legs promised to be straight and flawless; knees and ankles-often soft spots on a thoroughbred-were trim and tight. As he grew, a purist determined not to give him 100% on looks might have argued that his rump was on the skimpy side. He was and still is, as track people say, just a touch goose-butted...