Word: puritanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take a sip) to the smirking (a lothario urging an innocent girl to "come on" try it, while she purrs the puritan objection: "My parents." Not until the end of the commercial is it made entirely clear that they are talking about Dr Pepper...
...glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist (the varnished pine boards he uses, and the rigor of their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates a wild, laconic humor that is the obverse of puritan sensibility. But the environment that Westermann's images suggest has also to do with rootlessness: carnival sideshows-he was at one time a professional acrobat-and the miniature theater of penny arcades...
Replies the fastidious puritan: "It degrades...
...attitudes on nudity show, Dyan retains a sense of the Puritan ethic. In these days of four-letter words, for example, her efforts to avoid using foul language seem almost selfconscious. She rarely talks about sex, and when she does, she shoots a wicked glance, as if to say, "There, I've said it," like a Girl Scout who has strayed from the campfire...
...with stability - peace at any price. The great lords on whom his power principally depended did not understand or trust his policies, and they turned against him at Bosworth Field. He was a man both behind and ahead of his time: a remnant of the Middle Ages; an early Puritan...