Word: puritanical
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...more subtle symphony in ochre and umber is created by the window of Brown's Custom Shop in Kingsport, Tennessee, photographed in 1985. The wall is brown, the rolls of linoleum on display are lime, orange and teak. But Eggleston's aesthetic also has a puritan streak that goes beyond the garish and distressed to encompass blank white walls and dry grasses...
...rainbows, pills and glitter, flared pants with enough strap material to make a second pair. If you’re one of the lucky many from Cali, Florida or D.C., you might have seen it up close and personal. Either way, chances are, you’ve noticed that Puritan Boston—Hey, Let’s-Shut-Down-at-2 a.m. Boston—is somewhat lacking in the “rave” department. (After all, everyone knows that E and Guinness just don?...
Your cartoon strip poking fun at the shenanigans of Washington officials [CARTOON, Feb. 11] was funny, very funny! Mad magazine couldn't have skewered the energy-policy meetings between Dick Cheney and Enron CEO Kenneth Lay any better! And thanks for including the Puritan-throwback Attorney General John Ashcroft for his unbelievable decision to cover up the breasts of an innocent statue! JEAN P. FORRESTER Rochester Hills, Mich...
...questions that begged for gently sarcastic rejoinders. What types of people would you choose NOT to have with you on “Survivor”? Well, those likely to beat me. What would you take with you to the remote location? My Norton Anthology of Poetry: thin pages, Puritan poets excellent for starting fires. What would you NOT do for a million dollars? Cheer for the Yankees...
There is, for example, no monument to Anne Hutchinson, the zealous Puritan woman whose challenges to the Puritan clergy of Boston were a large part of the inspiration behind the founding of a college in Cambridge...