Word: craw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Delaware Senator Joe Biden delivered the Democratic response to Bush's "War on Drugs" speech, only one network carried it live. What stuck in the public's mind -- and Ron Brown's craw -- was the image of New York Congressman Charles Rangel facing the cameras after a White House conference and urging a tax hike to wage the war. Moaned Brown: "You can hear America sigh, 'The tax-and-spend Democrats...
Potato-chip fans in Louisiana opt for the fiery seasonings in Zapp's delectable Cajun Craw-Tators, golden brown, crisply curled wafers that are burnished with a savory and peppery spice blend, or the even more tantalizing incendiary jalapeno chips, hot enough to drive the muncher straight to a can of cold Dixie beer. Judging by the high price of Maui chips (as much as $7.59 for a 7-oz. bag), Hawaiians like heavy grease -- as do certain Angelenos. Jurgensen's, a high-toned Southern California grocery, buys all it can get of these dark, oily chips. The steep price...
Still, the Huxtons retain enough force to resemble the early Who, with drummer Arch Law and bassist Matthew Eddy's rumbling rhythm section and lead singer Rob Craw's milk-curdling snarl. Paris suggests that the Huxtons must be a killer live band. The credit for the successes of Paris--and the blame for its failures--must rest on the shoulders of producer Ian "Mack" McKenzie, who committed that live sound to vinyl. For most of the songs, the production is too antiseptic, too well-scrubbed for the type of rough, crude music the Huxtons play. Occasionally, though, McKenzie...
...that song, Craw sings, "My darker side, my Huxton Creeper side, wants to be set free." One wonders, however, if it isn't Craw's softer side that wants to be set free. The songs he composes by himself have a tendency towards melodic balladry that doesn't mesh with the rest of the Huxtons' musical vision...
...journalists; of kidney and liver diseases; in Hong Kong. Born in Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...