Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comic Anthony Clark, Emerson '86. "You'd see comics doing all the safe stuff -- stewardesses, Gilligan's Island, socks in the drawer -- that's all garbage! Leary was always up front, on the edge, even when the club managers wanted to limit his time 'cause he was so raw...
...roofers claim they are getting a raw deal from the locals. "There are plenty of good guys down here working," says Michigan roofer Chester Steele, a Vietnam veteran who serves as unofficial mayor and peace enforcer in Camp Hell. He contends that workers get ripped off by trailer parks (typical charge: $800 a month for a 1950s-era trailer) and hotels ($55 a day for a room without TV or hot water). Contractors regularly skip out on them, leaving them without...
...requirements. Instead of retreating Iraq challenged U.S. planes over the weekend in the northern no-fly zone. After the U.S. shot down a threatening MiG-29 Washington hinted at stronger retaliation. Coming just days before Bush was to vacate the Oval Office, it was impossible to ignore the raw personal edge that drove both leaders' actions. But together they have bequeathed to Bill Clinton his own tough question: What happens next...
...Your Call is marred by unadventurous arrangements. McEntire is listed as a co-producer on the album; she should have been willing to shear away the instrumentation, tasteful as it is, and expose her voice and all the raw hurt it bears. Still, her singing transcends commonplace melodies to find the anguish between the words, behind the music. Even cowgirls get the blues, but McEntire's vibrant vocals seem to say there's hope in the deepest of doldrums. Reba's pure-country voice is a lariat across an abyss...
MOVIES LIKE BUGSY MAY ROMANTICIZE THE RAW POWER THE MAFIA once exercised in Los Angeles. But according to the FBI, the influence of the local Mafia has declined so severely that L.A. is "an open city," an easy touch for mobs looking to muscle in. Most of the Mafia leaders in L.A. are getting pretty long in the tooth, for one thing. The FBI currently counts about 18 out-of- town Mafiosi operating openly in the City of Angels. More may be arriving soon...