Word: raw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the situation is getting worse at the retail level. We are not projecting a slowdown in our sales." The domestic retailers to which Supreme International sells do not seem alarmed. If anything, the Asian debacle is working to their advantage: Feldenkreis, who buys 85% of his clothing and raw materials from Asia, says the crisis there has actually reduced his costs. Absent traditional warning signs, what is he supposed...
...little bit of everything and make music with a fresh and original perspective--something rare and beautiful in the music industry. This band has always been a little different from everyone else, in a wonderful way. Don't ever call them standard or normal. At least, not yet. Raw energy and anger were more evident in earlier Cake music. Their two most widely-known songs, "The Distance" and "I Will Survive," stood out and were filled with intensity. Not so with this album. This new and somewhat optimistic energy has its value, but why ditch the smoldering resentment that...
...must-have for all Heaney fans, Heaney neophytes and poetry enthusiasts in general, the anthology offers word-for-word the richest visual splendor this side of Yeats. Herein are contained works of virility, gentility, raw passion, reserved harmony and the sheer ecstasy of reveling in language, rolling around in verbiage as only Seamus Heaney can do. The anthology contains works Heaney himself chose from among his rather extensive prosaic and prosodic output. The majority of the collection is made up of poems from all nine of Heaney's collections (spanning a thirty-year literary eternity from 1966's Death...
That leaves you raw, like opened ground, again...
With this allusion to his own work, perhaps Heaney is implying that after these thirty years of "digging," some ground has finally been opened, some introspective conclusion reached; yet the fact that this land may be "stretchmarked" and "raw," sexually mauled and completely violated, seems to imply that there is something inherently wrong, even obscene in this final revelation. Does this mean that the newly and rarely anthologized works contained in Opened Ground are detrimental to the essential oeuvre of Heaney's work, previously established within a mythical, symbolic, and imagistic framework? Hardly. Rather, Heaney is saying with his title...