Word: purvey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some months back. Both offer again pretty much the same bill of fare, without the single tune that snags your ear straight off and streamlines the journey to the Top Ten. The Cars, a Boston band, go big for flash, echo and cosmic inconclusion. Dire Straits are English and purvey a sort of oblique narrative rock so relaxed and laid back, with its easygoing guitar licks and sleepytime vocals, that the record could have been recorded live in a hammock...
...England can be had for only $49.70 this summer. The round-trip price includes visits to uncharted villages from Devonshire to Derbyshire, scenes of London rarely glimpsed by the natives, a vintage assemblage of odds and sods and intellects, and carte blanche to the last remaining pubs that purvey strong ale, stalwart beef and susceptible barmaids. Best of all, you don't have to leave an American beach to get there; the no-wait, wingless voyage can be booked at a bookstore. The package consists of six new novels of mystery, crime and suspense by English authors. Each proves...
...dark suits and cloth caps, answering to such names as Ali, Niyazi and Suleyman, hang about the local taverns. Their women, heads modestly covered with kerchiefs, are dressed in billowing pantaloons and long topcoats, even on hot summer days. Streets have informally been given Turkish names, and the shops purvey flat pita bread, mutton, sheep cheese and garlic instead of the Wurst, Bauernbrot (dark bread), veal and pigs' knuckles familiar in stores that serve a German clientele...
...difficult to avoid and there is often an embarrassment involved in not using it, somewhat akin to the mild humiliation experienced by American tourists in Paris who cannot speak the native tongue." According to Rosen, self-help and sex books, instant therapies and self-improvement courses like est purvey psychobabble in pure form. The problem is not just that psychological ideas dominate national conversation, but that psychobabble is a deadened tongue with no words to express "the paradoxes of emotional life." At least that's what Rosen is into, where his head is at, the feeling...
...liberation movement long ago slung the albatross of sexism around Mailer's own neck, and he must have considered that intentionally reconjuring its specter in this book would put a large part of his potential readership in a stalking mood--not good, when a writer is out to purvey his product, and the subject of this anthology has the sales promise of Marilyn Monroe...