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Still, learning to read by way of a race riot is a stroll in the park compared with some of the other offerings in your child's school library. Let the Celebrations Begin!, for example, is a cheerful little picture book about a Nazi concentration camp. Its characters--ragged, emaciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIROSHIMA, MON PETIT | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

It does--and with impressive results. "Welcome to MTV Unglued," Love says jokingly at the start of the show. Her voice is raw, but the band's ragged sound is perversely charming in this folksy format. They rip through a few songs from their current CD, Live Through This, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOW VOLTAGE, HIGH POWER | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Brooks said that although she wrote "hundreds" of sonnets over 30 years ago, she doubts she will write another. She said that we are in a "raw, ragged, free-verse kind of time."

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Brooks Speaks at Black Men's Forum | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

Respect, at least from the hip end of the rock establishment, has often eluded John. He lacks the anguish and ragged emotional edge of the existential rock star; he's closer to Neil Sedaka than to Bruce Springsteen. And there's something uncool-refreshingly so-about his naked need to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROARING BACK | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

There was nothing open-ended or ambiguous about the 28 minutes of closing testimony from Nicole Brown Simpson's sister Denise. Last weekend, jurors lived in close quarters with dramatic memories of Denise's ragged anger. Her agitated testimony offered a tympany of accusations that struck blow after blow at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEARS AND DREAMS | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

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