Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential credibility were the soul of restraint compared to what followed. Sweeping in with the brisk authority of a North Sea gale, British Press Lord Cecil King, 66, promised that his strictures on the U.S. press would be "mild and moderate." But anyone who reads King's raw and racy London Daily Mirror (circ. over 5,000,000) should have known that mildness and moderation are not traits that he admires...
...intellectual" tendency, the opaqueness of the paint, and the distillation of the language in Louis' paintings are carried even further in the last group of works, the "stripes." These paintings are composed of parallel, usually vertical, bars of dense, raw color side by side. The occasional overlapping and white spaces are accidental. These paintings are a curious combination of a Mondrianlike interest in the two dimensional representation of space; the optical effects of color juxtapositions in Albers, gestalt psychology, and "optical" art; and the immensely personal, romantic, color sensitivity which characterizes all of Louis' work...
...years ago, as a raw rookie at Indianapolis, he astounded racing experts by placing third and winning $42,551. That same year he won the U.S. Auto Club's big-car championship, a title he took again last year when he won eight out of 15 races and $82,695. This month Andretti teamed with New Zealand's Bruce McLaren to win the Sebring twelve-hour endurance race for sports cars-averaging a record 102.9 m.p.h. in a Ford Mark IV. As soon as that race was over, he flew to Georgia where he took over the wheel...
...break loose, like the Chinook salmon jumping and falling backnosing up to the impossible stone and bone-rushing waterfall--raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there stopped...
Ellington says that his greatest competition today is the Duke Ellington of 25 years ago. In those days, his raw, rich musical language had already established him as a great innovator. His audiences today tend to expect to hear the same Ellington, but he will have none of that. "We could've gone on for 50 years," he says, "just playing the old things and saying, This is our noise, baby.' But it's a form of condescension, the worst of all artistic offenses...