Word: rawe
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...road. That's not good news for residents of the Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural pesticides and raw sewage that laminates buildings in goo and provides a superb growing environment for bacteria. The entire floodplain, says Anita Walker in Des Moines, Iowa, will be a "muddy, stinky, awful mess to clean...
...Until 1943, when he turned 41, he had been a businessman, a wine merchant. His career illustrates the energy that a late flowering can produce, both in art and in its attendant ideas. Dubuffet is, of course, widely known for his espousal of what he called Art Brut, or "raw art," the work of those untutored and compulsive creators now called "outsider artists." Was he a primitive himself? Of course not: his art is as sophisticated as his writing, and in his apparent desire to shake off the burden of French culture, he was quintessentially French...
Moreover, somewhere near the heart of Dubuffet's idea of a poor art, a raw art, was a large and genuinely democratic tolerance. "The persons I find beautiful," he wrote in a catalog preface, "are not those who are usually found beautiful . . . Funny noses, big mouths, teeth all crooked, hair in the ears -- I'm not at all against such things. Older people don't necessarily appear worse to me than younger ones." Of course, Dubuffet's nudes in the 1950s are sexist, as sexist as Rabelais -- those rosy-brown, squashed-flat, gross and scarily funny "Corps de Dames" that...
...were eliminated, what would replace it? Perhaps nothing would work just fine, as the conservatives hope. Perhaps some experimentation is in order involving the election of blacks to at-large seats through systems of "cumulative" or "limited" voting. Yet the political theory is knotty, and the surrounding sensitivities raw: it was grapplings along precisely these lines that a month ago crippled Guinier's public career...
...with natural allies. She came alone, moved into an apartment furnished right down to the ironing board and the coffeepot, and set to work on an experiment in alchemy. But will it work? Will the most celebrated Cabinet member to storm the capital in years be able to turn raw personal popularity into hard political power...