Word: raw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aiming for the mass market with Kinsman. It's science fiction, yes, the reliable Bova blend of advanced science and backward bureaucrats, but science fiction intended primarily for the uninitiated--those sad souls who do not see the value of space travel or the vast potential of the raw materials out there; short, those who are letting, and helping, the space program go down the tubes...
...certainly right, for his own songs, where the musical energy of composers Dick Wagner and Michael Kamen matches Curry's, forcefully backing him up and showcasing his vocals. Raw guitar melds with a heavy bass-percussion rhythm and emotional saxophone screams in cathartic outpourings...a release, so to speak. Tense pauses let Curry deliver his hypnotic soliloquies before consummating the pieces in thunderous conclusions. Unfortunately, a couple of slow, boring love ballads that spew out countless cliches by Dick Wagner made it onto the record. Curry gives them his best, but vapidity is a tough opponent. But a dramatic rendition...
...possible that more than the immediate disruption struck a raw nerve in Allison; an unwelcome feeling of deja vu may have contributed. Thirteen years earlier, on November 7, 1966, Allison watched another crowd of over 500 Harvard students greet a Secretary of Defense. But that time, the controversy had been a bit more intense...
...charge, millions of ammonium nitrate pebbles soaked with fuel oil from a black cauldron near by. "We call 'em 'prills,' " Burns says, emptying another sack of the explosive powder into the cauldron. The prills look like a pile of granulated soap particles and feel rather like raw tapioca...
...fixed the visitor with a smile both penetrating and slightly mocking, warning by his bearing that there was no point in seeking to deceive this specialist in the foibles and duplicity of man. I have met no one, with the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle, who so distilled raw, concentrated will power. He was planted there with a female attendant close by to help steady him (and on my last visits to hold him up); he dominated the room?not by the pomp that in most states confers a degree of majesty on leaders, but by exuding the overwhelming...