Word: raw
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Some who have come to be famous see in retrospect that the daydream may have been touchingly adolescent, self-inflating in the style of Mr. Toad. In some personalities, the need for attention is darker and more retrograde: neurotic, infantile, a sort of baby's unappeasable love craving, a raw, screaming hunger...
When we met her in 1980 she was shy Di, with the streaked pageboy and lanky limbs backlighted through the thin flowered skirt. She was all raw material, charm and skin and a curtsy, the kindergarten teacher who could cross the street without stopping traffic. She would never be a perfect beauty, so the fun was watching her become a great one, the bones and the bearing taking shape before the cameras, as though by an effort of will...
...living in socialist Tanzania in the '70s taught Museveni just how flawed communism was. "Lenin talked only about money going out," he says. "He didn't talk about the wages a company paid that stayed inside the country, or the money paid for power and light, or the raw materials it bought or the taxes it paid. Lenin missed this." Even more important, Museveni saw firsthand that nationalized enterprises didn't work. "Communal property was nobody's property," he says. "So nobody worked. The problem was motivation. None of these fellows had a stake." He opens his eyes wide...
...Columbus, Neb., meat-processing plant owned by Hudson Foods of Rogers, Ark. The contamination probably originated at one of the slaughterhouses that supplies the Nebraska plant, but U.S. Department of Agriculture investigators found extensive problems at the plant, including the practice of tossing one day's leftover raw beef into the next day's batch. In response to heightening USDA pressure, Hudson last week closed the plant, pending safety upgrades, and expanded to 25 million lbs. its recall of possibly tainted beef...
...charge of clubbing the baby SEALs into fighting trim, with sardonic objectivity. We know where Scott's sympathies lie--he did, after all, make those terrific tributes to female capability, Alien and Thelma & Louise--but he wears them lightly. What he does superbly is establish a raw, compelling reality that transcends his movie's banal premises and predictable conclusion. That permits Moore to play, and us to feel, authentic pain, isolation and courage--shocking stuff to find in an action movie these days...