Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTERMATH (London). The Rolling Stones still choke on raw emotion (Paint It Black) and holler Beach-Boyish insults over a throbbing beat (Stupid Girl). But on occasion, now, the wild-eyed quintet become as refined-if not as inventive-as the Beatles, and back up their ballads with dulcimer, sitar or harpsichord...
...catharsis." His colleagues, Otto Miihl and Gunter Brus, held an audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints, cornflakes, half-chewed raw carrot, bits of melon and melon seed, milk, and tufts of moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad-minded about it all: "The visual arts today are a kind of brothel...
...plane at treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist who folded her self up like a lawn chair and slipped across the border under...
...Raw Power. Such dogged radicalism, plus what Brandeis Graduate Student Bill Berquist called "the raw political power" of students nowadays, inevitably conditioned the resolutions finally adopted by the congress...
...absorbed a steady stream of migrant Negroes from Mississippi, where a fertile folk tradition of spirituals, ballads, work songs and field hollers nourishes the blues the way the rich soil of the Delta sprouts cotton. The result is that all the Chicago blues are shot through with the raw purity of emotion, the lyricism and rhythmic subtlety of the Mississippi country style. Now a whole generation of younger performers have added technical polish and a hard driving sound that reflects the pace and pressures of city life...