Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experience of the raw play of unmitigated camp has always been tainted with a somber awareness of the seriousness of the eighties, specifically the epidemic which began in 1981. As it silently and invisibly roared through the discos, the cabarets, the bars, and the community at large, the unsuspecting party continued, but when people began to get sick, the campy seventies faded into a short lived dream of the past...
Responding to an audience member's suggestion that a majority of American journalists were "radically out of line with the mainstream of Americans and elitist," Wicker said the press should "avoid raw opinions...
Bess Wohl's performance of Green Eyes is one-sided. Her character convincingly grapples with the poetics of existentialist fate and the maddening embrace of nihilism, but lacks the raw masculine coolness, control, and beauty that give Genet's character his depth and charisma. However, this weakness is compensated by both LeFranc's and Maurice's credible attraction for him, an attraction which renders Green Eyes more full than Wohl's performance alone...
...brings some new sentimental comedy about terminal illness, usually involving some old curmudgeon's coming to rosy terms with the imperfections of the world he is about to leave. These plays, whose "reality" is rooted not in life but in prior plays, movies and TV, shy away from the raw emotions of fear and grief and the harsh facts of the body's decline, trivializing the eternal mystery they pretend to revere. What makes Wrong Turn at Lungfish more than usually disappointing is that most such plays don't have George C. Scott (although last season's revival...
...proposing so blunt a program, especially so huge a tax hike, Clinton was feeding raw meat to his Republican opponents. In the hours before the speech, G.O.P. lawmakers were already displaying a banner reading, IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID! Radio blowtorch Rush Limbaugh bet the Democratic National Committee $1 million that by Jan. 1, 1995, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and the federal deficit will all be higher and that Clinton's approval rating in the polls will be 45% or less. David Wilhelm of the D.N.C. replied with a counteroffer: If the Clinton plan works, Limbaugh will have to give...