Word: raw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, not all music invites analysis. There's no need to parse the meaning of Sheryl Crow's song Love Is a Good Thing (the point, it's pretty clear, is that love is a good thing). Muddy Banks, however, is more complex. It's a raw, fast, loud CD that starts with a scream and ends with the roar of a crowd--fitting bookends for Nirvana's too-brief career...
...four-hour whirlwind of Baroque frenzy at the Museum of Fine Arts, audience members marvelled as dishy Dutch virtuoso Pieter Wispelwey became transfixed by the power of the polyphonic magic he was creating. Sharing his emotionally raw and whimsically timed rendering of the complete cycle of suites for solo cello, he invited all present to share in his sensual interpretation of these rich and technically brutal pieces...
...West along the I-64 corridor. About half of Toyota's top 100 executives in the U.S. are American. And there are about 50 Japanese in the 6,500 person work force at the Georgetown plant. At the Tachibana sushi bar in nearby Lexington, Kentucky, manager Takashi Iwata serves raw fish to Japanese diners as well as to locals raised on burgers and barbecued ribs. "I am happiest when I have customers in cowboy shirts using chopsticks," Iwata says. "But to tell you the truth, my ancestors would be shocked...
Some viewers are protesting that The First Wives Club does little more than perpetuate destructive myths about human behavior. "It's raw sexism," insists David Usher, who helps edit a men's magazine, The Liberator. "We stereotype men and women, and they act out these stereotypes, and it goes straight into the divorce courts...
Knight--his nickname, pronounced Shoog, is derived from "Sugar Bear"--is the son of a Compton, California, truck driver. He began building his music empire in 1989, and from the start he had an eye for raw talent. Knight is often compared to Motown founder Berry Gordy in the way in which he recruited a talented group of performers and carefully shaped their images and careers...